#1 No Network after "I copied it"

[Ricardo Pinho]

After un7zip, moving or copying the GISVM files, the VMware player asks at the first time run, have you?: "I copied it" or "I moved it".
If you reply, as suggested, "I copied it", then the player assigns a different MACaddr to the network and Ubuntu will assign the network card a different number: eth1 or eth2... That can be verified by using the terminal command: "ifconfig -a". Explained with detail in:
http://yoopergeek.blogspot.com/2007/07/vmware-loosing-eth0-after-youve-copied.html

To solve that you must delete the persistent-net.rules files with:
sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
(reboot or) sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

But that will not correct the problem

[Ricardo Pinho]

Set persistent-net-generator to ignore VMware virtual interfaces

sudo vi /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules

Just before the line:
# ignore Xen virtual interfaces

Insert lines:
# ignore VMware virtual interfaces
ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

(save)
:wq