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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:47:32 +0100
From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
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To: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:57:14 -0500, Jim C. Brown <jbrown106@phreaker.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:25:10PM +0100, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > Have you tried to use -user-net?
> >
> > I am successfully using a custom 2.6.9-based distro in QEMU using
> > "-nics 1 -user-net -isa", the guest kernel uses the NE2000 driver, the
> > host is either a powerpc or a x86 running Linux. PCI is on my todo
> > list.
> 
> PCI is better in general (tho as far as the NICs go it doesn't make much of a
> difference). You shouldn't need to pass the -nics 1 option, as that is the
> default.

Yeah, PCI should probably give improved performance compared to ISA.
But I have something that works for me and I am not too tempted to
break it right now... =)

> > And I have only used the network to talk with the integrated TFTP server.
> 
> Is that the only use of the network that works correctly?

Nah. Or?
I use the integrated TFTP server many times per day to transfer files
from the host to the guest (testing code) so I just happen to know
that that part works for me. I don't know about other parts except
that the integrated BOOTP server seems to work too.

/ magnus