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It had nothing to do with the copying. |
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It's the annoying udev rules stuff, it freakin' figures out everything else in your system, but the MAC is "static" or something. |
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Edit this file: |
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/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules |
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Change your MAC to the one that VMWare assigned the VM. |
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You can find this in the .vmx file (amongst other ways) |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: news [mailto:news@×××××××××.org] On Behalf Of reader@×××××××.com |
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> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:58 PM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: I copied a Gentoo VM and now |
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> networking doesn't work. |
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> |
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> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net> writes: |
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> |
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> > On Wednesday 09 May 2007 02:55:42 Daevid Vincent wrote: |
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> >> I have a Gentoo VM that I've used for years (XP Host. |
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> Workstation 5.5.3). |
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> >> Works great. |
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> >> |
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> >> I copied the .vmdk and .vmx files to a new directory |
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> called "LAMP". I |
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> >> edited the .vmx file changing the appropriate paths. Now |
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> when I start the |
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> >> new VM, my networking fails. (I changed nothing inside the |
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> linux VM). |
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> >> |
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> >> ifconfig eth0 says: |
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> >> eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found |
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> > |
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> > Check for other devices. udev now establishes persistent |
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> network device names |
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> > based on MAC address (unless you add some of your own |
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> rules). It's very |
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> > likely that the MAC address of the virtual device changed, |
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> and the "new" |
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> > device is eth1 (or higher). |
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> |
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> To original poster Daevid Vincent: |
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> |
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> I'm curious to know if Boyd's suggestion helped. I had the same |
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> problem a while back. But since I was experimenting and didn't really |
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> need the clone I'd made I ditched it. Wondering now if I just needed |
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> to look for eth1 or higher. |
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> |
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