[Qemu-devel] Newbie Qeustions

[Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@neenet.com>]

Hello All,

I am QEMU and would like to use it to work with a new Linux Distro that 
I am trying to build. Looks like it will save me a lot of work in not 
having to re-boot all of the time.

My host machine is a Linux Mandrake 10.0 version and I have installed 
the QEMU along with reading over the documentation as well.

I try to run "qemu-fast -user-net linux.img"

after downloading the linux.img file from

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

The problem is that even though I have made the TUN device like

mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
add the proper alias to the /etc/modules.conf
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

QEMU cannot seem to find the ethernet connection when the linux.img boots.

Not sure what is happening here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lonnie