Re: Ubuntu VMWare Export to others (best solution?)

Michael Matthews wrote:

First of all, does anybody know if a VM that is sent to another person
will
get a whole new UUID? My problems are mostly Ubuntu-related, but this
little bit of information would help.

If I've understood the VM configuration properly, it's your choice -
uuid.action = "create"
will force each the creation of a new uuid. Specifying uuid.location &
uuid.bios without uuid.action will use the old values - but you'll be asked
(at least I was) whether that's the correct action.

The other solution that I've seen is to edit or delete
/etc/udev/rules.d/25-
iftab.rules. I've done this, and it SEEMS like the system is working just
fine, but are there any gotchas to doing this? I don't really know how
this
file is used by udev in Ubuntu. It seems like this could cause
inconsistent naming of the interfaces across reboots (like eth0 will be
hardware address

It certainly can. I _don't_ use iftab.rules for my physical ubuntu, and
whether my wired NIC is eth0 or eth1 is random.

These people may actually be on the same network as me, and thus they
require a new MAC address. That's why I'm asking about the VMWare UUID's,
because I know the MAC addresses are based off of these. However, when I
download something like the Ubuntu-based "Browser Appliance" (
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/browserapp.html), neither
am I asked to create a new UUID, nor do I find a way to solve my MAC
address problem.

That's different. Regardless of UUID, you can force new MAC addresses to be
generated - just create a vmx at easyvmx.com and take a look at what's in
there. I think it's just
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
with no mac address specified. First run will create new ones.

I'm new to this,so I could be wrong, but that's what I've observed :-)
--
derek


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