Debian Etch VMware Network Card Problem

Date July 30, 2007 Author By kadmin Category Linux, VMware

Problem

When you make a copy of a VMware Virtual Machine, the network card on the copy doesn’t work.

When you boot the copy, VMware creates a new MAC address for the NIC. Debian adds a new line to this file with the new MAC address.

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

Delete the lines with the old MAC addresses and change the last one to be eth0.