I dealt with this issue of the network interfaces changing assignments in our
Ubuntu images.
For Ubuntu 9.04 and earlier:
Create /etc/udev/rules.d/90-persistent-net.rules file.
Contents:
SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{type}==1,
KERNEL==eth*, OPTIONS=ignore_device
This prevents the device rules from assigning eth0 and eth1 different names
because the mac addresses don't match the original machine.
For Ubuntu 10.04 and later:
Instead of creating 90-persistent-net.rules file, create
/etc/init.d/udev-netrule script to remove
70-persistent-net.rules file on shutdown, so it doesn't exist when image is
captured.
Contents:
/bin/rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
Link to /etc/rc0.d/S10udev-netrule and /etc/rc6.d/S10udev-netrule.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
919-962-9778
From: Evelio Quiros [evq...@fiu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:35 PM
To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Image Creation from Base Image
That¹s great. Looking forward to the new release.
But how were you able to manage new images before?
Does the problem not exist in other Linux distros ?
Q
On 11/15/11 12:19 PM, Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu wrote:
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On Tuesday November 15, 2011, Evelio Quiros wrote:
Hello,
I was able to successfully capture a base image.
I have added the image to the image group.
However, when I try to make a reservation, or create a new image,
It eventually fails. I watch the VM server and see that a new VM was
started. It does start a new VM with the correct MAC addresses,
but Redhat detects these changed MACs as new interfaces, and assigns
them
to eth2 and eth3. Consequently, they are not brought up, the machine
never
dhcp's, and the image fails to contact the vcl server.
Should I delete the network persistence rules before capturing the
image ?
Exactly - that one has really been a problem for us. I believe Aaron
actually
committed a change for vcld that will be in 2.3 that automatically
deletes it
at capture time.
Josh
Regards,
Q
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North Carolina State University
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