As a mentioned in previous posts I have created a simple script that would clone/configure a KVM guest based on existing templates. The scripts can be found in my github https://github.com/mrdimka/kvm-scripts . When I tried to launch a CentOS 6 VM I ve noticed that eth0 was not configured and was failing.
I ‘ve logged on the VM and started debugging what might be wrong.
First I tried to start network with executing
# /etc/init.d/network restart Shutting down loopback interface: Bringing up loopback interface: Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. RTNETLINK answers: File exists
I ‘ve researched and found that the problem was caused by udev rules defined in file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
I mounted my template image and removed the 70-persistent-net.rules file with the following commands
# kpartx -a centos6-default.img # mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt/sdb/mounts/tmpkvm # rm -rf /mnt/sdb/mounts/tmpkvm/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules # umount /mnt/sdb/mounts/tmpkvm # kpartx -a /dev/mapper/loop0p1
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