From: "Glenn Meadows" 

He's running it in a virtual machine, so the hardware is virtualized, and a
virtual MAC address is created.  From how I'm reading it, a new Mac Address
is being created each time he loads the Virtual Machine, so it's been
suggested that he create a file that assigns the same MAC Address each time
the VM is loaded.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45d38e1f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Really, can't the Mac address for most NIC's be fixed via firmware or is
> the MAC address set by the operating system?  I thought it was set by the
> card's firmware?
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:e7s6t2dn3fuh9vdvg55949s6lsr00ln755{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:36:36 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually if that's the case my problem is Windows Vista activation
>>>> going
>>>> bizarro with just a MAC address change  
>>>  Does that mean you lose your Vista license if your NIC blows and you
>>> have
>>> to replace it?
>>
>> I'm beginning to suspect it does. I did a google search and found others
>> having similar reactivation problems as myself and Bob Comer  when
>> running Vista in a virtual machine that isn't set for a fixed MAC
>> address.  I'm not sure if there is some sort of internal count on the
>> change of the MAC address and it's triggered after x number of changes
>> though.  That's still an asinine way to trigger activation

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