Suse ES networking problem on vmware

After restarting vmware of SES, from time to time, the network interface got changed.
As a result, the network connection would stop working.

The resolution to this issue is to manually edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file. This file has two entries related to network cards:


# PCI device 0x8086:0x10f5 (e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:50:ac:ee:0d:d5", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x10f5 (e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:50:ac:e0:fd:23", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

The first entry with eth0 is the original virtual machine MAC address. The second entry is the new NIC with the new MAC address.

You must change the MAC address in the first entry from eth0 to eth1 and remove the second entry.

After a reboot, the cloned virtual machine has network connectivity.

The original source of this solution is http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1021624 .

Step-by-Step Creation of Vmware images

Sometimes a different OS (other than the one you are running on your machine) is needed for testing purpose. Vmware technology provides a convenient way (not so convenient, but it's easier than getting another machine and install, or install another OS on local machine) to do this.
For example, by using vmware, there are 2 steps to use a Linux system like Suse, on Windows OS:
(1) Making an image of the target Linux system (guest OS).
(2) Use vmware player (which is available in vmware.com) to run the image.

But how to make the image of the guest OS? Here are several steps:
(1) You must ensure that you have enough space required by the guest OS. You should get VMWare Disk Image (a VMDK file) and a VMX file in order to describe the virtual machine.
(2) These files are downloadable in Forever For Now Blog .
(3) Put these 2 files in a directory and edit the vmx file to set up the guest OS description and installation image.
(4) Use vmplayer to run the image.
(5) The installation of the guest OS will automatically starts......
The detailed installation guide can be found at vmplayer documentation site.