After doing a cold migration of a RHEL 9 VM from RHV, the network interface names changed, causing that the configured static IP addresses were not used.

The resulting VM had no network connectivity.

mtv-operator.v2.7.9

Always

1. Source VM in RHV: RHEL 9
  - Several NICs: enp7s0, enp8s0, enp9s0
  - No udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d
  - Static IP addresses configuration based on interface name:

    [connection]
    id=enp7s0
    uuid=2903e15b-e782-3f51-87ff-b0c438f02752
    type=ethernet
    autoconnect-priority=-999
    interface-name=enp7s0
    timestamp=1724246369
    [ethernet]
    [ipv4]
    address1=192.168.1.2/24
    ...

2. Cold migrate to OpenShift
3. Review network config on the copied VM

The interfaces were renamed to enp1s0, enp2s0, enp3s0.
The static IP addresses were lost.

Network configuration preserved.