Solution for : Error in my VM “SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0 after cloning

Actually when you clone a Virtual machine IP address conflict will come.

So we must be care full in production environment when turning on both the

Production and cloned virtual machines.

If you create a new Virtual machine before cloning and then add vmdk file 

( cloned from vm) then there will be

a problem " SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0 " this is because cloned 

vmdk file has one MAC address and when VM is created it generates another 

MAC address so both address will be added so no device will be added to 

solve this probelem

Go to

# Ubuntu
sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

 /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.old

#Debian
sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules 

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.old

or you can simply remove 70-persistent-net.rules after 

giving it a new static ip address 

or go to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

its content will be like this 

# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 

ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:50:XX:XX", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 

ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:36:XX:XX", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1" 

now go and delete the first line eth0 this is created by the

cloned vm and not by vmware when creating a vm

so delete that line change the second line eth1 to eth0 and reboot

the machine 

this will solve your problem....

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