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I have a little issue which is rather odd.
I have a VM passed to me by a colleague which I host on my laptop (lets call the laptop, machine A). I have since copied this VM to another host machine (B) on the same network and stopped using the VM on machine A.
The issue I have now is that the VM on the machine B still uses the IP of machine A even when on bridge mode. I have tried ipconfig \release
and \renew
but to no avail - the VM on machine B retains the IP of machine A. We use a DHCP so its supposed to be dynamic IPs anyway.
A side effect of this is that everytime the VM on Machine B is running, Machine A (the machine itself and not a VM) will go offline and have no connectivity. A third party who uses RDP to the IP address will enter the VM on machine B instead of machine A.
Why is this the case and how can I fix this?
Some details: I use VMware player and the host + VMs are all on Windows OSes.
To add: When I do ipconfig \all
, I get a (Preferred) next to the IP address.
can you open command prompt and preform
ipconfig \all
and what does it say forDHCP Enabled.......
– Cameron Aziz – 2012-07-06T04:13:34.657it says "Yes"... – Reuben L. – 2012-07-06T04:22:38.987
hmm. what about the mac address of the VM and the mac address of machine A? Are they the same? – Cameron Aziz – 2012-07-06T04:25:39.913
they were the same. but the thought crossed my mind that it may be the issue and so I changed the mac address of the VM to a different one and tried renewing the IP. still didnt work. – Reuben L. – 2012-07-06T04:33:18.837