On 11/8/2016 3:20 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 22:57 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> The only odd thing I see in the syslog at startup are lines indicating >> eth0 is not found. > > Wild stab in the dark: Perhaps things have remembered the mac address > of the original (automatically added) device as eth0 and so the virtio > device has been renamed out of the way, meaning that > /etc/network/interfaces's references to eth0 don't work? > > Does "ifconfig -a" (as root) show the virtio device with some name > other than eth0? If so then you might need to edit > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to cause it to forget the old > device. > > Ian. > > >
Hi, Ian, and thanks for the response. No, the mac address of the original eth0 device was different (and generated by QEMU). There was also no difference if I didn't specify a MAC address for the virtio-net-device. ifconfig -a shows only the lo device. Any other ideas? Thanks again, Jerry