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Copying Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in VMWare - Network trouble

If you are trying to figure out how to get your network working again after cloning a VMWare image from Ubuntu 8.04, I hope you find this post before you waste an hour trying to figure it out like I did.

After copying the VMWare files and launching the copied instance be sure to tell VMWare that you copied the image. This will generate a new MAC address for your cloned server. You will need to remove the networking udev rule though, in order for udev to figure out your new MAC address.

Just run this command:

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

Then

sudo reboot

If you keep a base install image on hand (highly recommended!), be sure to remove that file before you start to make copies from it. Then you won’t run into this problem again!

This entry was posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Copying Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron in VMWare - Network trouble”

  1. Huw Says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Thanks! I have just literally just migrated a fresh Hardy install and was about to start debugging the lack of networking!

  2. Jacob Singh Says:
    July 6th, 2008 at 5:44 am

    You rock! Totally worked. thank you

  3. Rafael Sanches Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 6:19 am

    Thank you very much. :)

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