On 11/4/10 11:32 AM, David L Lambert wrote: > Last week I tried cloning a VMware virtual machine running RHEL6. In > order to keep the new machine from stealing the old one's DHCP > assignment, I deleted and re-added the virtual adapter before bringing > it up (equivalent to replacing the NIC in a physical server). When I > boot a cloned RHEL4 machine, a wizard appears asking to delete the old > adapter, and then to configure the new adapter; no such wizard appeared. > The new interface showed up as "eth1", and I had to manually edit files > under /etc/sysconfig to configure it. Perhaps it's because I installed > the minimal package set plus some server services, no X windows? So no, > I haven't seen the OP's exact problem, but the current edition seems > less network-change friendly. > > On the other hand, the overall install process is lightning fast, so > maybe what I was doing wouldn't be supported anyway...
In order to get away from hard-coding HW MAC addresses in the ifcfg-ethX files, udev generates a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules the first time a machine boots. If you move hardware around or clone a VM, it's a good idea to remove that file and reboot. I'm sure there's a better udev way to do it, but I'm not sure. /Brian/ _______________________________________________ rhelv6-beta-list mailing list rhelv6-beta-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-beta-list
