[fedora-virt] Cloned machine has no network

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 03:28:31 UTC 2010


Tom Horsley said the following on 01/17/2010 08:25 AM Pacific Time:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:00:30 +0100
> Sven Lankes wrote:
>
>> I'd guess that you still have the old machines MAC-Address in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> You also probably have eth1 instead of eth0 because there is
> probably a /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net* file out there
> locking the eth0 name to the old mac. Deleting that file and
> rebooting will create a new copy with the new mac called eth0.
>

Thanks!  Yes, updating the MAC in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and 'rm 
/etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net*' plus a reboot made it work.

Would it be a viable RFE to suggest that the "cloning" operation would 
take care of this in the cloned guest automatically?

John


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