Adapter network and cloning

I am running VMWare Workstation 7.1.3 on a Fedora Core 14 crowd. I created a Virtual Machine and installed Fedora Core 11 on it. I configured this machine with all the features of internal specific sysadmin, I need. Then I want to use it as a base and make clones of this virtiual machine as necessary. I have it configured to use the network bridge.

Seems when I clone, using the no linked full clone clone, this Fedora Core 11 guest OS of the cloned machine VM see a device eth2 and no device eth0, although the original machine that the clone was made of sees an eth0 device. Note that this is the second clone that I did of this host of the base. I think that the first clone created a device to eth1, but I got confused and just created a second and deleted the first clone. It seems that each clone that I do the base increases the eth? that the cloned virtual machine sees.

This causes some confusion with WIndows Network Manager based for Fedora. When I click on the graphical interface, network sysadmin tool it shows eth0 to inactive on the devices page, but no eth2-based. When I look at the Hardware page it shows a device eth2 but no eth0 device. It is therefore impossible to use network GUI tool to manage the ethernet. I can't assign a static device eth2 IP address since it does not show in the peripheral page and I can't activate the eth0 device because it doesn't have the equipment.

An ifconfig shows a device eth2 but no eth0 device.

What exactly is happening here on how the eth devices are assigned when clones?

Is there a way to get the clones use a < cnt > eth device rather than device eth0?

I would fix this upward in the VM rather than in the guest operating system Fedora because I want to delete and regularly make clones of this VM basis and not want to still be mucking with the eth? value.

Thank you

Chris Kottaridis

Is there a way to get the clones use an EPF instead of the device eth0 device?

Before you shut down the virtual machine clone, run the following command as root in a Terminal in the virtual machine.

rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

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