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
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Please provide easy way to disable network interface name persistence
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645728
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