Sunday, November 11, 2012

Ubuntu MAC Address in VirtualBox

When running Ubuntu in a virtual machine, it is not a good idea to change the MAC address of the ethernet interface. Afterward networking is completely broken. Somehow the interface gets added as eth1 to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.

Removing the new entry and changing the mac address in the eth0 entry fixes this.

This blog entry talks about essentially the same problem with Ubuntu on vmware.

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