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From: Luke -Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make ping work for -net user
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:12:08 +0000
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On Thursday 16 August 2007, jbrown105@speedymail.org wrote:
> This is a very simple proof-of-concept patch that fakes ICMP well enough
> for ping to work.

Speaking of which... does ping work if qemu runs as root?
As to the patch, it looks like it only works if you're testing whether you 
actually can ping or not. It wouldn't work with, for example, icmptx.