Public bug reported: When working with virtual machines, it can be quite painful to spend a good amount of time customizing an Ubuntu virtual machine as an appliance for others, only to find out that it won't work for them due to the network interface being renamed when it is imported, with this message being in the log: udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
Typically when creating a virtual machine for distribution, this behavior is not desirable as the MAC address will likely change and that's ok. Could Ubuntu please provide a mechanism by which automatic networking device renaming could be disabled, and perhaps even disable it by default in server installs where a bare minimum virtual machine option was selected? I realize it is possible to modify /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent- net.rules so that a MAC address change won't change the interface name, as well as changing /etc/network/interfaces so that a new name will have the same treatment as the old, however many appliance authors might just as soon use CentOS or FreeBSD if they get burned by this. Thanks! -Happy Ubuntu User Release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: network -- Please provide easy way to disable network interface name persistence https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645728 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs