I think you must use a more recent kernel because some bugs have been fixed in QEMU and kernel that need both of them in sync.
Could you extract the kernel from your m68k disk image to use it with QEMU "-kernel" and "-initrd" parameters? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926497 Title: dp83932 stops working after a short while Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Following the instructions here https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/m68k I was able to successfully install debian. However, running apt-get update stalls after the first 1-2MB. root@debian:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease [55.3 kB] Ign:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease Get:2 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main all Packages [8,735 kB] 18% [2 Packages 2,155 kB/8,735 kB 25%] After running apt-get update. I don't seem to be able to send any packets anymore. ping host lookups fail and a subsequent apt-get update makes no progress. I'm launching qemu with: qemu-system-m68k -boot c \ -M q800 -serial none -serial mon:stdio -m 1000M \ -net nic,model=dp83932 -net user \ -append "root=/dev/sda2 rw console=ttyS0 console=tty" \ -kernel vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k \ -initrd initrd.img-4.16.0-1-m68k \ -drive file=m68k-deb10.qcow2,format=qcow2 \ -nographic I see this with qemu v6.0.0-rc5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1926497/+subscriptions