From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HnVS6-00034r-9f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:58:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4E7vMEp009729; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:57:22 GMT Received: from outbound.mailhop.org (outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4E7pQ1e001543 for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:51:26 GMT Received: from c-67-168-161-74.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([67.168.161.74] helo=daevid.com) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HnVL3-000HyC-GQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 03:51:25 -0400 Received: from locutus ([10.10.10.69]) by daevid.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.54) id 1HnVL2-0008WF-5Z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 00:51:24 -0700 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 67.168.161.74 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+tzMg/iGx6+22jtlAP53ad From: "Daevid Vincent" To: References: <000001c7920f$83295fc0$450a0a0a@locutus><200705090452.08355.bss03@volumehost.net> <87odkpzufe.fsf@newsguy.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work. Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:50:54 -0700 Message-ID: <00da01c795fc$ab85ac30$450a0a0a@locutus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Thread-Index: AceU02BrQd+VickIRhar5UQVWAfVggBKJySg In-Reply-To: <87odkpzufe.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5d32cd7a-ca18-46ab-94e1-3657c0dccdbc X-Archives-Hash: ef8d984d32c2d9cc973f96196c9fef54 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." 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. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list