Created attachment 538031 [details] VMware Fusion dmesg screenshot Description of problem: According to this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming, "User experience" section: "Linux guests running under virtualization platforms such as KVM, Xen, VMware Workstation or ESX, or Microsoft Hyper-V will not have their devices renamed." Unfortunately I can see that on VMware Fusion the network interface is being renamed, attached screenshot. I'm booting a minimal Fedora 16 OS with @core package group installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-173-3.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot any appliance built with appliance-creator or BoxGrinder in VMware Fusion. 2. Run ifconfig. Actual results: Network interface is renamed. Expected results: Network interface name should stay eth0. Additional info: Booting the same appliance on QEMU preserves the network interface name. Currently I'm working arround this by setting "biosdevname=0" to the kernel.
BTW, I've seen the exact same issue on Fedora 15.
For info, same issue on FC16 minimal install running on VMWare ESXi 4.1
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