well, had to add something to it.
I found out I was having an issue with the addon ethernet card (e1000) 'link detected no' and it not working. Took it out? Yep? Work? No.....
However, I did add a second vm and something interesting is happening....
one vm stays up, one will crash...the one that stays does not die.
I am thinking that the vnet0 that comes up is messed up and I need to reset it somehow. Or...something else....but one staying up while other goes down is rather odd.
very strange.