User`s guide

Managing Parallels Server Bare Metal Network 153
Configuring Virtual Adapter Parameters
Parallels Server Bare Metal allows you to configure the following parameters of virtual machine
adapters:
Configuring the MAC Address
If you need for some reason to regenerate the current MAC address of a network adapter, you
can use the following command:
# pctl set MyVM --device-set net1 --mac 00:1C:42:2D:74:00
Creating net1 (+) network=Bridged mac=001C422D7400
The VM has been successfully configured.
This command sets the MAC address of 00:1C:42:2D:74:00 MAC address for the net1
adapter in the MyVM virtual machine. If do not know what MAC address to assign to your virtual
adapter, you can make pctl set automatically generate a new MAC address. To do this, run
the following command:
# pctl set MyVM --device-set net1 --mac auto
Creating net1 (+) network=Bridged mac=001C42C84F3E
The VM has been successfully configured.
Configuring the IP Parameters
As any other standalone server, each virtual machine must have a number of TCP/IP settings
configured in the proper way to successfully operate on the network. These settings include:
 an IP address for each virtual network adapter inside the virtual machine
 the default gateways to be used by the virtual machine
 the default DNS servers to be used by the virtual machine
Usually, you define all these settings during the virtual machine creation. However, if you have
not yet set any of the settings or want to modify any of them, you can use the pctl set
command. For example, you can execute the following command to assign the IP address of
192.129.129.20 to the net1 adapter in the MyVM virtual machine and set for it the default
gateway with the IP address 192.129.129.1 and the DNS server with the IP address of
192.192.192.10:
# pctl set MyVM --device-set net1 --ipadd 192.129.129.20 --gw 192.129.129.1 --
nameserver 192.192.192.10
Along with a static assignment of network parameters to a virtual adapter, you can make the
adapter receive its TCP/IP settings automatically using the Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP). For example, you can run this command to make the net1 adapter in the
MyVM virtual machine get its IP settings through DHCP:
# pctl set MyVM --device-set net1 --dhcp yes
Creating net1 (+) network=Bridged mac=001C42C84F3E
Enable automatic reconfiguration for this network adapter.
The VM has been successfully configured.
Detailed information on all options which can be used with the pctl set command to
manage virtual machine adapter parameters is given in the Parallels Command Line Reference
Guide and the pctl manual pages.