VMWare

When open a virtual machine created with vmware server 1.0 with vmware workstation 6.0, which is running debian 4.0r0,
the eth0 won't start by reporting the following error:

linuxvm1:/etc/network# ifup eth0
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Failed to bring up eth0.

The solution:
1. run ifconfig -a