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Sirch
Asked: 2012-07-21 05:03:52 +0800 CST

VMWare ESX 4.1 Deploy Linux from template and DO NOT customise

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Having spent some time on a nice prebaked linux template, I'm somewhat disappointed to discover that when I clone this template and clearly choose to NOT customise, it gets customised.

Specifically, an interface configuration changes from ONBOOT="no" to ONBOOT="yes", which means someone needs to log in and changing it.

All the virtual machines should be the same, only the the first interface needs to be configured and that will come from dhcp servers, and I would really like eth1 to remain down initially.

Would anyone know what is running against the template and changing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* ?

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  1. Best Answer

    Have you thought that the MAC address of the virtual nic changes when you clone and hence it is more likely that it is the linux startup scripts that change the configuration instead of something from VMware?

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