RHEL7 Network Device Name changes when Importing OVA

Hi everyone,

I've started going through the RHEL7 Networking guide to discover how best to change the network device name when importing a RHEL7 VM that has been exported as an OVA file in VirtualBox and imported on a different machine with VirtualBox but different network hardware. (using RHEL 7.4 w/ latest patches)

When exported, the original VM has a NIC name of enp0s3, but after importing on new a machine we get a message like the following?

“Bringing up interface np0s3:  Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection.”

I'm thinking I need to "prep" the VM for cloning before exporting to an OVA file.

Does anyone know the procedures for this?