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Nmap Development: Re: Vmware Servers and Hosts

Re: Vmware Servers and Hosts

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh_at_linux01.gwdg.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:07:04 +0200 (MEST)

On Mar 27 2007 22:26, Robert Slater wrote:
>
>Here is another machine running SME 7 server on CentOS 4.3 base
>#######################################
>MAC Address: 00:0C:29:73:F3:C4 (VMware)
>Device type: general purpose
>Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X
>OS details: Linux 2.4.18 - 2.6.4 (x86)
>#######################################
>
>The interesting thing about vmware servers is that they **always** seem
>to have the fact that it is VMware in the <virtual> Mac Address.
> Is this just fluke on 5 virtual machines or can someone verify this?

When creating virtual network cards, VMware will, by default, give it a
MAC address in the EMC/VMware Inc. vendor space. One is free to change it
in the .vmx file afterwards, though.

Jan

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