Virtual Machine Network Interfaces

When you create a virtual machine, you include a VirtualMachineConfigSpec, which, in turn, includes a VirtualDeviceConfigSpec. The device property of VirtualDeviceConfigSpec is a VirtualDevice data object.

One of the available virtual devices is VirtualEthernetCard. You can use one of the subtypes of VirtualEthernetCard to specify the virtual card to use and to specify the MAC address and whether wake-on-LAN is enabled for this virtual card. See Adding Devices to Virtual Machines. A limited number of adapters is supported. KB article 1001805 (http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1001805) discusses available network adapters and which adapter is appropriate in which situation.