Just installed a VM with the current 14.04 Beta that has NetworkManager 0.9.8.8 and it looks like the settings may be retained now (looks like may have been fixed in NM 0.9.8.4 looking at the release notes.)
Just installed a VM with the current 14.04 Beta that has NetworkManager 0.9.8.8 and it looks like the settings may be retained now (looks like may have been fixed in NM 0.9.8.4 looking at the release notes.)