On 16/02 03:24, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My ultimate goal is to have a Devuan VM guest on my Void Linux Daily
> Driver Desktop (DDD) that acts like just another metal computer on my
> LAN at 192.168.0.0/24. I want it to have address 192.168.0.66. I've
> tried to do this sporadically over the past 2 years, never with success.
> ...
>
> I tried setting the VM guest's /etc/network/interfaces to static with
> address 192.168.0.66, with the gateway, netmask etc set accordingly,
> but after doing that, ip addr on the VM showed no IP address at all.

It all looks fine, and static setup should work. Possibly you left out
the "auto eth0" or "allow-hotplug eth0" line?

Ralph.