Tag Archives: VM

Debian eth0, eth1, eth2, in Virtualbox or VMware Virtual machines when copying

By jacob | Published: November 13, 2009
Debian uses udev. Udev handles mapping MAC’s to the appropriate /dev/eth(X) file. If you copy a Virtual machine, Udev will remember the MAC address of the old NIC. When you copy the machine, the virtual host usually generates a new MAC address for the VM. Udev will assign the new Device to eth1, eth2, and so [...]
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Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error.

By jacob | Published: August 14, 2009
Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session. This is a result of a zombie ‘vmware-vmx’ process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends ’signal 9′ to the process. When sent to a program, SIGKILL [...]
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