I might be naïve, but from my point of view, if a file exists, it has a good reason to do so... Therefore, I like better to edit the file, and correct the rules rather then to remove it.
Stop networking and udev:
/etc/init.d/udev stop
/etc/init.d/networking stop
Then, edit the persistent-net.rules file:
On Ubuntu: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
On Debian: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules
You will find two instances. The first one is the one from the template virtual machine. The second one is the one attributed when answering "I copied it", on first start:
# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (vmxnet)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:36:xx:xx", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"
# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (vmxnet)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:75:xx:xx", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1"
Delete the 1st one, and change eth1 to eth0 at the end on the second one. You will end up with:
# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (vmxnet)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:75:xx:xx", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"
Save the file (obviously), and then restart udev and networking:
/etc/init.d/udev start
/etc/init.d/networking start
And it works. You don't need to reboot your machine or what so ever, and you don't have to delete that rule file.
