Accessing hardware

[jean-guy mouton]

Hello,

I plan to buy an imac and use Parallels to run Windows XP on it.

If I have an application that needs to access the network card in Windows XP virtualized and that needs a special MAC address, is that going to work in Parallels?
Thank you.

 

[desgael]

Can you specify the application in question?
It is possible to change the Mac address for the virtual machine, however, the network adapter is a virtualized one and is detected, as far as I remember, as a RealTek network adapter.
So, how the application would work depends on how exactly does it check the adapter and for what purpose.

 

[jean-guy mouton]

This is something I am trying to write and the application just access the MAC address to check the licence which is linked to the network card identifier, in this case the MAC address.