Network adapter is renamed after running guest customization of Pardus OS in Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• Network adapter is renamed from 'ens192' to 'ether'
• Network connectivity is lost
• This suffix name "ether" is written to the file /etc/network/interfaces

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.5

Cause

Pardus is not a supported Guest OS in Cloud Director 10.5. 

Resolution

This is a known issue. Support for Pardus OS is added in Cloud Director 10.6.You can download the latest VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 from the Broadcom Support Portal.

Workaround:

1) Login to Pardus OS as root user and backup the file /etc/issue file.

cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.backup

2) Modify the file /etc/issue. Change the content to look like this:

Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l

3) Save the file.

4) Perform Guest customization again to confirm it works.