# Virtualisation and MAC addresses

Category: [Dedicated servers / VPS](https://dev.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps.md)
Source page: [https://dev.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps/virtualisation-and-mac-addresses](https://dev.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps/virtualisation-and-mac-addresses)
Keywords: virtualisation, mac-address

If you use virtualization, the mac address of the virtual network card is different from your physical network card.

You can let your virtualizer generate a random mac address, it doesn't matter.