Restarting the Guest Network After Customization
After customizing guest network settings, you can restart the guest network manually
from within the guest operating system, or by using a method of the
VirtualMachineGuestCustomizationManager
managed object. This method is
important for instant clone operations, but it can be used for other purposes as
well.To restart the guest network manually, see
Resetting the Network Stack in a Running Virtual Machine.
To restart the guest network using the vSphere Web Services API, use the
VirtualMachineGuestCustomizationManager.StartGuestNetwork_Task
method. This method both reconnects the virtual NICs to the network and restarts the
guest network service.The
StartGuestNetwork_Task
method is supported on most popular Linux distributions.