Need to know how to change ip address and hostname after deploying OVF template

Question

In ESX, I export OVF of my VM (configured as dhcp). Then In another ESX, I use "deploy OVF template" from file menu. My new VM appears working, except I could not change the IP address and hostname.

VM: GuestOS: CentOS5.4 + my application

In the new VM's summary tub, IP Addresses: (dhcp address) DNS : xx-a50055

I changed:

/etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I could not figure out what I have missed.

Thanks

Does it give you an error when you tried to change the IP address and host name? Can you paste the contents of the ifcfg-eth0 as well as the output of ifconfig -a? — Rilindo, Oct 05 '11 at 02:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 08 '16 at 11:41

A deployed OVF often creates a new network interface, possibly ifcfg-eth1. This is because udev rules often bind a MAC address to name of the NIC. You can verify this by having a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/*-persistent-net.rules.

I can recommend two solutions:

You either delete /etc/udev/rules.d/*-persistent-net.rules before you export, or
you deploy as OVF and adapt /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 (or whatever the new interface config file is called) to provide a static IP.

Need to know how to change ip address and hostname after deploying OVF template

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