[Bug 289921] Re: network interface does not come up after installing open-vm-tools

[Ruben Laban]

I have another works-for-me (tm) solution (other than adding vmxnet to
initrd):

Modify /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools:

--- /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools.orig      2009-01-19 10:57:02.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/init.d/open-vm-tools   2009-01-19 10:51:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
                then
                        modprobe -r pcnet32
                        modprobe vmxnet
+                       invoke-rc.d udev restart
                fi

                log_daemon_msg "Starting open-vm guest daemon" "vmware-
guestd"


As for some reason the hardware change initiated by the guest tools isn't noticed by udev. Restarting udev does detect it. There might be a better way to signal udev in this case, but I don't know enough details about udev to figure that out.

I'd say this solution is better than modifying initrd, as it now only
loads the vmxnet module when needed (and not always which is the case
with a modified initrd).

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