You can also just delete the
/lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules from the template.
That creates the /etc/udev/rules.d one. So with both of those gone,
you'll get an eth0 even when your mac changes.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Patrick Miller
<patrick.mil...@sungard.com> wrote:
> the default build adds the mac address to a couple places.
>
> Here is a script I wrote to deal with it, Run before creating the template
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ed /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules <<__EOF__
> /eth0
> d
> w
> q
> __EOF__
>
> for i in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
> do
> ed ${i} <<_EOF_
> /HWADDR
> d
> w
> q
> _EOF_
> done
>
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Prasanna Santhanam <t...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:52:25PM +0530, Jason Pavao wrote:
>>> Hey Folks,
>>> Are there any wiki or documentation on what needs to be done to a
>>> rhel5/6 instances before it can become a template? The symptoms i'm
>>> experiencing right now are- when a instance gets created from template,
>>> the vm comes up, but without eth0. I need to manually configure the host
>>> via console and perform a reboot in order for the new instance to come
>>> up with networking. Any advice would be very appreciated!
>>>
>>
>> (moved discussion to -users)
>>
>> No specific wiki AFAIK,
>>
>> You could start from the ISO, create your instance and make a template
>> of it. How did you go about creating the template? What is the
>> BOOTPROTO in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0? Can you turn
>> off network-manager control for the ip and try again?
>>
>> Also note RHEL6(.3?) has the ifcfg-em1/em2 convention.
>>
>> --
>> Prasanna.,
>>
