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dragadeli
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Adding a hard disk kills networking!

My VM (SUSE Linux Ent. Server 64-bit) was working fine in VmWare Fusion. I shut it down (shutdown -h 0), and then in Settings, added a new hard disk (Hard Disk 2) as a SCSI, 10GB drive. After restarting the VM, the network interface fails to initialize. ifconfig also fails to show eth0.

It says: "eht-id:........ No interface found", "Setting up service network....failed."

Why?

I've run yast and tried to reconfigure the network card, but it still fails on a restart. How can I fix this...and how can I add a Hard Disk properly in VmWare fusion? I thought it was a Fusion bug, so I just downloaded the latest version (1.1 62573) and it still happens.

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dragadeli
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Has anyone successfully added a hard disk on Vmware fusion without it killing the networking setup?

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I just tried adding an IDE disk and then a SCSI disk to a Windows XP guest, and networking (NAT mode) still worked after both. I'll try a Linux VM later.

Edit: Tried adding a SCSI disk to a Ubuntu 6.10 guest, and networking (NAT mode) still works.

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