[CentOS] Problem with CentOS 5.11 virtual machine

Wed Aug 24 17:11:01 UTC 2016
Kaplan, Andrew H. <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG>

Hello --

Thank-you for your email. 

The reinstallation of vmware-tools worked, and as a further a test, I rebooted the virtual 
machine, and the network was still operational. 



-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 12:49 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with CentOS 5.11 virtual machine

Try reinstalling vmware-tools

Eero

24.8.2016 7.41 ip. "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN at partners.org> kirjoitti:

> Hello --
>
> We completed an installation of CentOS 5.11 32-bit onto a Vmware ESXi
> 6.0.0 appliance for the purpose of running a legacy application. The 
> hardware in question is a Dell PowerEdge R730xd system. The Vmware 
> tools utility was installed onto the virtual machine, and that 
> initially provided access to the network. Once that was done, patches 
> from the CentOS repository were installed onto the virtual machine, and it was rebooted.
>
> The problem we are experiencing is that after that last reboot the 
> network card is not recognized, and there is no connectivity. The 
> error message we are getting is the following:
>
> vmxnet3 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
>
> The setup utility within CentOS recognizes the card being present, but 
> the running ifup command, and turning off the NetworkManager daemon 
> did not help. I also went to the /etc/udev/rules.d directory, removed 
> the existing 60-net.rules file, and recreated it with the echo 
> command. A reboot did not populate the file. I then tried creating a 
> 70-persistent-net.rules file, and that did not work either.
>
> Running the command
>
> ls /sys/class/net
>
> listed only the lo interface.
>
> So far, the only solution that I can think of is to recreate the 
> virtual machine, install the Vmware Tools utility, and forget about 
> installing any patches. Before I do that, I wanted to know if anyone has any other ideas.
>
> Thanks.
>
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