Cloning a Debian System with VM Ware
Sounds really simple, VM Ware has a simple task in the menu wich says just that, so what is the problem?
Well, you do your clone and start the VM Clone with Debian in it and there is suddenly no network. But you though of this ahead of time and put the system on DHCP, it should just connect and get a stupid IP address and get busy working.
Udev seems to be keeping a history of the hardware. So when you start the VM clone the system sees that eth0 already exists, but you are on “new” virtual hardware, so Udev makes a eth1 for you, isn’t that nice?
So you need to handle that history file.
The file you want to get your hand on is:
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
You can open it an have a look inside. There you can either delete the old lines that you no longer need, or you can simply delete the whole file. On the next restart of the system Debian will create the file for you again.
That should solve your problem.
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