To have a backup of my virtual machine I just copied it to a DVD. I have a big surprise when I want to restore it. Everything works great, exept Networking. I had no ping, no internet, nothing.
The problem was caused because VMWare tools asign a new Mac address.
How to solve this problem:
- Go to the phisical location of you VM files and find vmware_suse.vmx
- Open it and find the following entry: ethernet0.generatedAddress
- Copy the MAC address
- Now, go to the SuSE VMWare and open a termina
- su – root
- Showdown your ethernet interface: ifconfig eth0 down
- Add the MAC address from you VMWare: ifconfig eth0 hw ether AA:11:BB:22:CC:33
- Start-up your ethernet interface: ifconfig eth0 up
- If you use DHCP it is recommended that you will boot your system to renew all the entries into the DHCP server: shutdown -r now
That’s it!