Yesterday I had to clone a VPS to run some CPU and memory intensive tests. With our current setup (Xen + LVM), cloning an image on the fly is easy.
After configuring a new IP address for the clone, I booted up the system. Nice, but I ran into a problem:
Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such [...]
Xen: How to fix “SIOCSIFADDR: No such device”