Ubuntu VMWare Export to others (best solution?)

Michael Matthews erobererunc at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 05:15:30 UTC 2007


....damn.  If it's that easy, I'm going to be kicking myself.  Thanks!

On 2/21/07, nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Blank iftab + save.
>
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