How does the naming of KVM virtio-net NICs work in RHEL 8?
Issue
- In RHEL 7, virtio-net network interfaces were always given some name like eth0, eth1, eth2, etc.
- With RHEL 8, virtio-net NICs are given names such as ens3, ens9, etc. Why?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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