ok, so i shut down the AirWave virtual appliance, added a network interface in WMWare (type E1000) in another vlan and started it again.
dmesg showing:
e1000 0000:02:00.0: eth0: (PCI:66MHz:32-bit) 00:50:56:92:67:ee
e1000 0000:02:00.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
e1000 0000:02:02.0: eth1: (PCI:66MHz:32-bit) 00:50:56:92:67:ef
e1000 0000:02:02.0: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
so far so good, but then
udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth2
which of course causes an issue.
after some more editing in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ i got both interfaces up (as eth1 and eth2), but is the eth0 to eth2 rename something expected?