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When using set MAC1= command will it write it permanently to grub.cfg? or do I need to download the .vmdk to a linux client, mount it there, and edit the grub.cfg and upload it back to the datastore?

Its possible that other DSM VM you have running has the same MAC as the new one you try to run with DSM 6.1. That way one VM wont be found by find.synology.com. Try this: - VM settings: in options set boot time to few seconds, - when you start new VM, with DSM 6.1, in grub options click 'e', - edit command by adding: set mac1= - F10 to start VM. No, I am using different mac's for all of my VM's. I connected a serial console using named pipe from the DSM 6.1 to my Ubuntu VM on the same host, as you you see the nic is not requesting an ip from the dhcp server (checked the logs in pfsense dhcp client list also). root@ubuntu-server:/home/donald# screen /dev/ttyS0 115200 :: Loading module cnic ... [FAILED] :: Loading module r8169 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module tg3 ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usbnet ... [ OK ] :: Loading module ax88179_178a ... [ OK ] :: Loading module button ... [ OK ] mount: open failed, msg:No such file or directory mount: mounting /dev/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb failed: No such device ln: /proc/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory :: Loading module synobios ... [ OK ] udhcpc (v1.16.1) started eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:32:2C:A7:85 inet addr:169.254.58.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:890 (890.0 B) Interrupt:19 Memory:fe120000-fe140000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) :: Starting syslogd ... [ OK ] :: Starting scemd :: Starting services in background Starting findhostd in flash_rd... Starting services in flash_rd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J01httpd.sh... Starting httpd:80 in flash_rd... Starting httpd:5000 in flash_rd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J03ssdpd.sh... /usr/bin/minissdpd -i eth0 (15): upnp:rootdevice (51): uuid:upnp_SynologyNAS-0011322ca785::upnp:rootdevice (58): Synology/synology_bromolow_3615xs/6.1-15047/169.254.58.122 (47): http://169.254.58.122:5000/description-eth0.xml Connected. done. /usr/syno/bin/reg_ssdp_service 169.254.58.122 0011322ca785 6.1-15047 synology_bromolow_3615xs eth0 Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J04synoagentregisterd.sh... Starting synoagentregisterd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J30DisableNCQ.sh... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J80ADTFanControl.sh... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J98nbnsd.sh... Starting nbnsd... Running /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/J99avahi.sh... Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon cname_load_conf failed:/var/tmp/nginx/avahi-aliases.conf :: Loading module hid ... [ OK ] :: Loading module usbhid ... [ OK ] ============ Date ============ Wed Mar 1 12:24:53 UTC 2017 ============================== starting pid 5897, tty '': '/sbin/getty 115200 console' Wed Mar 1 12:24:54 2017 DiskStation login: edit: Nevermind, finally found the problem. You can't change change the MAC from the VM in vmware, the mac 00:11:32:2C:A7:85 is somewhere hardcoded in the loader, so you MUST use that one. Changed it to 00:11:32:2C:A7:85 in the .vmx file (or using vCenter or UI from host) and is requesting IP now... update: So, problem is: when the mac address in the vm for the e1000 nic is different from the one in the loader it won't work, so both must be the same. Installed DSM 6.1 and all is working now. Regards, Donald.

That's the point, it can't find the DSM 6.1 using find.synology.com or the synology assistant program. I have 2 other DSM's running on the same ESXi host that are working fine, that's the DSM 5.2 from Xenoboot and DSM 6.0.1 from oktisme. Also tried to migrate the DSM 6.1 to another ESXi host (without loader), same problem, it can't find the synology and isn't requesting ip from dhcp server.

I'm having the same problem as zagor. Deployed ovf fine, but can't find synology in network. It isn't requesting ip via dhcp, so network doesn't seem to work (tried E1000 and E1000E) and tried Different MAC's also. Also tried the 4 boot options and isn't working for me either. I'm on ESXi 6.5 with Loader 2.0.9 installed to also run MacOS, gonna try to install on another host without that loader, maybe the loader is the problem.