Category: VMware

VMware – Linux CentOS VMware Tools Installation

September 23, 2020
VMwareVMware ESXi 6.7VMware vCenter Server 6.7

The article in this link provides step by step instructions for installing VMware Tools on Linux virtual machines.

Additionally, upon executing the command ./vmware-install.pl, as the root user, I was met with an access denied error. The solution was to run the command perl ./vmware-install.pl.

Ubuntu – Eth0 Missing after Virtual Machine Migration

May 8, 2020
LinuxUbuntuVMwareVMware vCenter ConverterVMware vCenter Server 6

I recently performed the migration of a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS to VMware using the VMware vCenter Converter. After the migration the VM would not connect to the network. Upon research I found that the eth0 network interface was renamed to ens160. This was determined by running the following command:

dmesg | grep eth0

There was a line that said:

vmxnet3 0000:03:00.0 ens160: renamed from eth0

The final step was to create a backup of the /etc/network/interfaces file then edit it using the vi editor by removing all entries of eth0 and replacing them with the new network interface name of ens160.