Error On Alibaba VPS Installation

[dragonsway]

I found this thread:

Unable to determine IP address of primary interface

Same problem here. Tried to reinstall Debian 9.6 from scratch, rename interface to eth0, install vmware-tools right after fresh install (since it’s running in a VM). We bought the professional full-version, reinstalled again, retried, changed eth hardware setup in ESXi -> Always same error: [ERROR] Fatal Error Occurred: Unable to determine IP address of selected interface. Cannot continue And then the script terminates and the network link is dead. We suppose that the Debian netinst does not …

So I tried to run:

#ifup eth0 when the warning appeared… no luck same problem

Is this bug only in Debian, if I switch to ubuntu can I get rid of it?

Will a static ip solve the problem?