Thursday, April 17, 2008

Virtual PC and MAC addresses

When you copy a VPC, only copy the VHD images and do no copy and reuse the VMC file. When a VMC is created, VPC generates a MAC address for the virtual ethernet adapter(s), and stores this in the VMC file. If you copy the VMC file, and used networking with your VPC, you will end up with duplicate MAC address within your network.