I have an OS X client VM within VMware Fusion. It does have a serial number (starting with VMW.). This is different to the host Mac. VMware Fusion seems to generate the serial automatically, but it is not obviously stored in the vm's configuration files. Also not mentioned in the vm logs.

My guess is that it is 'burnt' into the.nvram file when the vm is created or copied. As you know the UUID can be changed, but the only references I can find to changing the serial number relate to downloadable OS X vm images. For example: This supports my guess in the previous paragraph.

Using downloaded images breaches Apple licenses - but you are not doing this. Serial number: Not so clear as it does need to be globally unique - it would be bad to change it to a value used by another vm or physical mac.

But, I don't understand your need to change the serial. VMware will make sure it is unique if you copy vms to create development and test environments.

I have Jenkins set up on both my Windows7 PC and a Mac. About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company. Configure SSH in your MAC: $ ssh-keygen.

It's actually pretty straightforward. Check if you have a public key already that you could reuse: ls -a ~/.ssh If there is NO public key file id_rsa.pub then generate one: ssh-keygen Accept defaults. I don't enter password because I prefer to keep my hard drive encrypted whenever the repository contents are critical. Copy your public key to clipboard: pbcopy / First time you will get a warning similar to this: The authenticity of host 'bitbucket.org (104.192.143.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 97.:40. You should google for 'Bitbucket fingerprint' and compare what you see in terminal with what Atlassian documentation gives because fingerprints could change and can be faked.

I have successfully configured my GitHub client to use SSH, and received the confirmatory email from GitHub that a new SSH key was added. I would like to setup IntelliJ to use SSH as well, so that I don't have to enter my Username and Password every time I interact with GitHub. I also don't want IntelliJ to save my password for me, since I am unsure how secure that would be. The closest I have come so far is that I need to edit my ~/.ssh/config file to tell IntelliJ that there is an SSH key it can use. Unfortunately I have not managed to find an example that works. Here is my latest attempt at a ~/.ssh/config entry: Host IntelliJ HostName github.com User git IdentityFile '/Users/peter/.ssh/github_rsa' TCPKeepAlive yes IdentitiesOnly yes I have tried restarting IntelliJ after adding that entry, but to no avail. I'm running IntelliJ Ultimate 12.1.6 on Mac OSX 10.8.5.

GitHub plugin for IntelliJ lets you to save the password, so you don't have to enter it every time. With keys (adapted from, thanks to comment): • Create ssh key pair $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C 'activehacker@youremail.com' • Add key $ ~/.ssh/id_rsa_activehacker • Confirm that the key is added $ ssh-add -l • Modify ~/.ssh/config Host github.com-activehacker HostName github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_activehacker In IntelliJ VCS >Checkout from Version Control >Git Test As you can see, you will still have to either enter passphrase for the key pair after every IntelliJ relaunch(I believe the passphrase is kept in memory) or let IntelliJ to store it permanently.

The answer above by kukido seems to now be out of date; the IntelliJ UI no longer provides the same level of access to the github URL. And, the default 'built-in' (to IntelliJ) ssh executable seems to not respect the.ssh/config file settings.

What I have found now works is to switch from using the built-in ssh executable to the 'native' ssh executable. This is done by visiting Settings. Version Control Gitand then choosing Native in the SSH executable pulldown menu. This applies to IntelliJ version 2016.2 and I'm pretty sure earlier versions such as 2016.1 and the 2015 series. • Open Git Bash and create a new ssh key using your GitHub email address like this: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C 'your_email@example.com' • Then it asks you a file path for saving the key. You can simply accept the default by pressing Enter.

• You then will be asked for a passphrase. Make sure you remember it as you may need it at the time you want to push your project's changes to GitHub. • Ensure your ssh agent is running. For that you can enter the following command eval $(ssh-agent -s) • Now add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent like this: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa • Now go to your GitHub profile and select setting->SSH and GPG keys. Select New SSH Key and after entering a title, copy your key using this command: clip.