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I’m adding this to my checklist when exporting a virtual machine via virtualbox.

on the guest image,

1. become superuser
2. echo “” > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
3. shutdown -r now
4. open up the 70 persistent net rules again. change eth1 to eth0
5. shutdown -h now
6. go ahead and export (VBoxManage export $image_name -o $image_name.ovf)

For me, this saved a lot of asprin when importing VM on a new machine. This permits udev to assign the first available eth adpater to your machines virtual mac address.

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