RE: [gentoo-user] Re: I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com>]

It had nothing to do with the copying.

It's the annoying udev rules stuff, it freakin' figures out everything else in your system, but the MAC is "static" or something.
Edit this file:
 
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Change your MAC to the one that VMWare assigned the VM. 
You can find this in the .vmx file (amongst other ways) 

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