Re: [Qemu-discuss] passing network options to the guest

[Francesco Turco]

On 11/22/2013 07:21 PM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed a windows xp on qemu-x86 host with the option "-net
> nic". However after installation, there is no network connection. Think
> that you are installing a windows on a real machine which has no network
> interface. Windows installer won't create a network connection for that.
> So the device manager has a question mark on the ethernet entry.
>
> Is there any more option that I have to pass to qemu?

I'm no QEMU expert, but in my experience you should also add the -net 
user option.