"Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring."

I recently copied a VM from my mac to a linux server. The VM didn't work so I created a new one using the vmdk from the original VM. When started there was no network configuration and trying to start one using "/sbin/ifup eth0" resulted in the message "Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring.".

To fix this I had to update the mac address for the eth0 device which was found here:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

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