KB ID 0001047 

Problem

A while ago I spun up a CentOS server in VMware Workstation, and I could not get it connected to the network, I was in a bit of a hurry, so I blew it away and just built a new server with CentOS 6. This week I’ve been using VirtualBox and spun up a new CentOS 7 server and had the same problem.

Solution

1. Quite why CentOS 7 does this I’m not sure, My NIC is called enp0s3 (run ‘ip addr’ to find yours). Then take a look at;

[box]cat/etc/sysconf/network-scripts/{interface name}[/box]

As you can see (above), the ONBOOT section is set to ‘no’.

2. Use the VI editor (because you wont have Nano installed yet) to edit the file (Press I to insert > Edit the file > Escape > :wq {Enter}).

3. Reboot the server, and now we have comms!

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