Specifications

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Note: Write the above command on one line.

Note: On a Linux host, the machine ID passed on the command line takes

precedence and is passed to the guest operating system if the following

conditions are met:

• A virtual machine ID is specified in a configuration file.

• You use that file to launch a virtual machine.

• You also specify a machine ID on the command line.

2. Retrieve the string in the virtual machine. In a Windows guest, the command to

retrieve the string is

VMwareService --cmd machine.id.get

Note: In your Linux guest operating system’s startup script, add the following

command before the network startup section:

/etc/vmware/vmware-guestd --cmd 'machine.id.get'

You need to further customize this startup script so it uses the string the service

retrieved during startup to set the virtual machine's network name to W2K-VM and its

IP address to 148.30.16.24. This string should be located in the script before the

network services are started. If you're using a Windows 2000 guest operating system,

for example, you can call the NetShell utility (netsh) and pass it the contents of the

string, which then uses the string accordingly (that is, it can set a new IP address for

the virtual machine, if that is what was passed in the string originally).

From your host operating system, you can prevent a string from being passed to the

guest operating system via the service. To do this, set the following line in your virtual

machine's configuration file.

isolation.tools.getMachineID.disable = TRUE

Passing Information Between the Guest Operating System and

a VMware Scripting API Script

When the guest operating system is running inside a virtual machine, the VMware

Tools service allows you to pass information from a VMware Scripting API script you

created (that is running in another host machine) to the guest operating system and

from the guest operating system to a script.

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