[Bug 341006] Re: ease cloning of virtual images by disabling mac address rules

[Richard Thomas]

Actually, it occurs to me that if the down-process scripts were written
how I suggested above, the whole persistent-nic thing would be moot
except as a convenience to us silly humans. And that's as it should be.

I guess the meat of the matter boils down to "What to you mean when you
say 'eth0'?"

Interface aliases might be another way to do things but I expect that
might break a lot of stuff in a lot of nasty ways.

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Title:
  ease cloning of virtual images by disabling mac address rules

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Cloning an vmware image of ubuntu or ubuntu-based spin-offs like JeOS leads to unwanted side-effects after changing the mac-address as described in 
  http://communities.vmware.com//thread/198298?tstart=0
  and
  http://professionalvmware.com/2009/03/10/ubuntu-cloning-mac-address-change-mayhem/
  Both sources advise to add the following line to ‘persistent-net-generator.rules’:
    # ignore VMware virtual interfaces
    ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

  Please apply this to the packages.

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