FYI,I'm experiencing this as well, and note that the issue still occurs with -no-kvm, but not with current qemu-trunk (r4955); that said, qemu-trunk's behavior doesn't seem to be perfect either -- there are several "No IP address" responses before one is acknowledged.
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