Ubuntu VMWare Export to others (best solution?)

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Am Dienstag, den 20.02.2007, 16:51 -0500 schrieb Michael Matthews:
> First of all, does anybody know if a VM that is sent to another person
> will get a whole new UUID?  My problems are mostly Ubuntu-related, but
> this little bit of information would help.
> 
> My problem is, when I copy an Ubuntu VM, the 2 network interfaces that
> I'm using turn from eth0 and eth1, to eth2 and eth3.  I know that I
> can edit /etc/iftab (or write a script) to replace the hardware
> addresses in this file with those of the actual virtual pieces of
> hardware, but since this VM is going to be used by other people, I
> didn't want to add this step.  I was wondering if there is a much
> deeper way to fix Ubuntu's handling of the new interfaces.  What I'd
> really like is to have /etc/iftab repopulated, so does anybody know
> how to do that? 
> 
> The other solution that I've seen is to edit or
> delete /etc/udev/rules.d/25-iftab.rules.  I've done this, and it SEEMS
> like the system is working just fine, but are there any gotchas to
> doing this?  I don't really know how this file is used by udev in
> Ubuntu.  It seems like this could cause inconsistent naming of the
> interfaces across reboots (like eth0 will be hardware address
> 00:...:01 sometimes, and 00:...:02 another time, switching with eth1).
> Does anybody know for sure?  It certainly doesn't change
> the /etc/iftab file like I'd like it to. 
> 
> Anyway, what I'm trying to do is to make a single Ubuntu VM
> installation that is configured to work for my purposes, and
> distribute it to others.  These people may actually be on the same
> network as me, and thus they require a new MAC address.  That's why
> I'm asking about the VMWare UUID's, because I know the MAC addresses
> are based off of these.  However, when I download something like the
> Ubuntu-based "Browser
> Appliance" ( http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/browserapp.html), neither am I asked to create a new UUID, nor do I find a way to solve my MAC address problem. 
> 
> Thanks for any help!  I'm going to be in contact with VMWare as
> well.  

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