Problem with network of vmware appliance

In: Linux

1 Dec 2008

Today I updated my vmware test environment by downloading a new Ubuntu 8.10 server appliance. After extracting the zip file and staring the server inside my vmware player version 2.5.1 there was no eth0 device available. I tried to start it manually with ifup but that did not work.

A quick google research brought up Eric Martin’s excellent post about how he fixed that problem. It seems that my vmware player instance created a new MAC address for the network adapter. I deleted the old entry for eth0 from the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and changed eth1 to eth0 in the second entry. After a reboot everything worked fine again.

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