[ubuntu] Configure Static IP Address on Linux VM in VMware Player

Everytime I use putty to connect VM,
It's ip will be changed.
This situation is very annoying.
So i decide to set static.IP
There are three networking options for virtual
machines running there: Bridged, NAT, Host-Only.
I use NAT in order to coneect web.
see this  BLOG for detail

$ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5)
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.22.146
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  broadcast 192.168.22.255
  gateway 192.168.22.2
dns-nameservers 192.168.22.2

you need to restart

$ sudo service networking restart

then you will encounter a problem,

lewis@lewis-virtual-machine:~$ sudo service networking restart
stop: Job failed while stopping

let's to check log

lewis@lewis-virtual-machine:~$ sudo  tail -f /var/log/upstart/networking.log
Stopping or restarting the networking job is not supported.
Use ifdown & ifup to reconfigure desired interface.

//it indicate that not supported

So use this to do

$ sudo ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

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