On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 08:54 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > James Gregory wrote: > > > I have actually had this working in the past, but I remember it being a huge > > amount of effort. I don't know if you can get away with it for what you > > need to > > do, but the user-net option is much simpler to get going. I suggest you try > > that; it will at least tell you if your guest OS is setup correctly. It will > > also let you run it as a normal user. > > Err ok I thought that user-net option didn't actually give the PC > network connection. The documentation on qemu that I found so far is > pretty thin, just enough to get an expert going, not being one of those > I'm stuggling a little. So does the user-net option actually give you > network connectivity and if so why would anyone bother with the other > method?
The user-net option will allow your guest system to make *outgoing* connections. You can't (without some tinkering) use it to run an externally accessible webserver for example. user-net lets me fire up a debian virtual machine, set up networking with dhcp (qemu has its own dhcp server for its "virtual network"), and pull packages down with apt. The other options do have their utility, but for most people, user-net is the right choice. > > > Also, which version are you running? The 0.6 version had a bug with > > networking, > > though I don't recall the details. > > 0.7 ok, that should be fine. > > > I've seen that before, presumably because it doesn't try to redraw until > > something writes to its video memory region. It generally works ok once > > there's > > been some activity on the guest OS. Is this not the case for you? > > No moving the mouse etc, even the busy "hourglass" cursor is black. It > all works it's just black, not that there's anything wrong with being > black ;-) I don't understand; how can you tell that there's an hourglass there if everything is black? Can you point us to a screenshot? HTH, James.
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