Can you please check if you have an /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules?
According to your UdevDb.txt you use the standard e1000e controller. I suppose what happened is that the old persistent-net-generator ignored VMWare devices, but ifnames knows about them. So we need a similar trick to what we do for virtio ethernet devices in udev.postinst.
Can you please check if you have an /etc/udev/ rules.d/ 70-persistent- net.rules?
According to your UdevDb.txt you use the standard e1000e controller. I suppose what happened is that the old persistent- net-generator ignored VMWare devices, but ifnames knows about them. So we need a similar trick to what we do for virtio ethernet devices in udev.postinst.