Re: [Qemu-discuss] FreeDOS in qemu: no internet-connection

[Christian]

Hi Peter,

thanks a lot for your answer and the link.

I was so convinced that this would be a FreeDOS issue that it didn´t
even occur to me to look it up in the qemu-documentation.
Well, personally I don´t bother about the ping-command either. It´s just
that I always want to be able to
explain to myself how and why things work.

So thanks again and have a nice day.
Greetings.
Rosika

Am 17.09.2018 um 17:45 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 17 September 2018 at 16:34, Christian <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In the beginning I thought it didn´t work because the ping-command kept
>> failing.
>> But I could get the "Links"-browser to work. So I could verify the
>> correct functioning of the internet-connection.
>> Why the ping-command didn´t work is surely another matter and cannot be
>> discussed here.
> The second "Note:" in https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
> says "don't try to use ping to test if you're using usermode networking",
> because it won't work.
>
> The underlying issue is that by default the host OS will not allow
> random unprivileged processes like QEMU to send ping packets.
> If you're using a Linux host and have root access on it it is possible
> to configure it to allow your user to send ping packets:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking#Enabling_ping_in_the_guest.2C_on_Linux_hosts
> but personally I don't bother, I just don't try to use ping in the guest.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>