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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:54:19 -0400
From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Setting up tun/tap network doesn't work
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:14:29PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm trying to get qemu 0.7.2 on Gentoo Linux to work with tun/tap
> network - but fail to do so :/
> 
> Thus, network isn't setup properly inside the qemu "guest".
> 
> Rather obviously, I seem to be missing something. But what
> is it? Also, the documentation isn't that clear, as far as
> the network part is concerned... Also, I'm sorry to bother
> you on the devel list, but the "plain users" forum is down :(
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help you can provide,
> 
> Alexander Skwar
> 

Make sure the guest supports the ne2k-pci driver (either compiled in or loaded
as a module). from the output you provided, it appears that your guest kernel
lacks the right ethernet driver. Check the output of dmesg to see if ne2k
is mentioned.

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