Re: [Qemu-devel] Clarification about qemu-fast (was segfaults in fc1)

[Jean-Michel POURE <jm@poure.com>]

Le mercredi 23 Juin 2004 18:50, Jim C. Brown a écrit :
> That is not exactly true. Qemu works fine for me, even when I start it when
> I am offline. However I use VDE/tuntap and do have a local area network, so
> it is possible that qemu requires a network connection to function
> correctly (IIRC since 0.5.5 qemu uses -user-net by default if it can not
> access tuntap, and -dummy-net by default for earlier versions). Of course
> tuntap requires that you have an actual ethernet card to work....
>
> BTW if you are using the Windows port, you might be better off using
> -dummy-net or -user-net ... I vaguely recall that one of the reasons
> -user-net was introduced was because it was so hard to set up networking
> with qemu when Windows was the host OS.

Can anyone confirm the same problems with -user-net as described here:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9388
http://www.poure.com/screenshots/qemu_temp_6.png

A Debian SID guest with user-net seems to loose network packets. On the 
contrary, Tun networking works fine. Please note that this is not qemu-fast 
but qemu system emulator.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel