hi ,

I am trying to perform VM cloning using KVM in a centos 5.6 machines. I copy the memory contents of a running vm to an external state file and try to use that to start another VM in a different machine. While starting the cloned VM I provide a different mac address but once it resumes it has the old one . I tried changing the mac address in ifcfg-eth0 but I get the error :

Device eth0 has a mac address xx:xx instead of configured xx:xx . Ignoring .

Is there some way to change the ip/mac of the cloned vm without the need to restart the VM ( Then the purpose of cloning will be defeated). Thanks a lot for the info .

- Sethu

I found the solution. Sorry for posting this question. I solved it using :

ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX

and

service network restart.

ifconfig eth0 , I found the new ip address there !!

Thanks !!

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Finally, some help. Thanks!

I found that your fix works until I reboot, then I have the same problem again. A fix that seems to persist after a reboot is to instead edit the mac address in the ifcfg-eth0 file to match the one shown for eth0 with "ifconfig -a", like this:

1) ifconfig -a
2) Get the "HWaddr" setting.
3) vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
4) Change the "HWADDR" setting to the one found in step 2).
5) service network restart