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Erik_Aldor_3151
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Feb 22, 2010

Interfaces uninitialized?

I am testing the VE in both Vmware ws 7 and Virtualbox. Unfortunatly with the same result. I can't get the interfaces to work. I have added them as host only but the interfaces show up as "UNINITIALIZ...
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qe_102628
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Feb 03, 2011
VE trial doesn't support VMXNET3 interfaces - this is why they're coming up with all zero MAC addreses. In VE production (10.2.x), E1000 are not supported but VMXNET3 are - you will see the same behavior.

 

 

If you get into this situation you're not "permanently hosed" - simply rm /var/db/mcpdb.bin and reboot your way to freedom.

 

 

As for iControl, nice find - the unitialized NICs are part of the 10.1.0 VE Trial Release Note Known Issues, but that's a tangible aspect of the issue.