Ubuntu VMWare Export to others (best solution?)

[Michael Matthews]

Sorry, does this repopulate the iftab file though?  That is, will I see the
standard lines eth0 and eth1 with the new MAC addresses beside it?

I'm still concerned about interface names persisting across reboots.  I want
them to persist forever, and if blanking the iftab file before powering down
and transfering the VM will cause iftab to be repopulated with the new MAC
addresses, then that's exactly what I want!

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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