Re: add vEthernet to QEMU

[Michele Denber]

    On 2/1/2024 1:13 PM, Howard Spoelstra wrote:

This is from our guide to qemu-system-ppc with tap networking:

Install an OpenVPN tap device and bridge it with your normal ethernet connection. Then use the following on the Qemu-system-ppc command line:

-device sungem,netdev=network01
-netdev tap,ifname=TapEthernet1,id=network01
(replace “TapEthernet1” with the name of the tap device as shown in the Windows network connections)

 Which works just fine for qemu-system-ppc guests without configuring anything else on the tap device. You need both these lines, otherwise the lance network device indeed has no peer:

-device lance,netdev=mynet0
-netdev tap,ifname=TAP_Ethernet,id=mynet0

and then configure the network in the solaris guest....

    Thanks for the reply.  I had actually tried that before but that
    doesn't work either.
    
    C:\Program
      Files\qemu>qemu-system-sparc -machine SS-5 -m 64 -drive
      file=sunos-hdd.img,bus=0,unit=3,media=disk -device
      scsi-cd,channel=0,scsi-id=6,id=cdrom,drive=cdrom,physical_block_size=512
      -drive if=none,file=Solaris1.1.2SPARC.iso,media=cdrom,id=cdrom
      -vga cg3 -device lance,netdev=mynet0 -netdev
      tap,id=mynet0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no
      
      qemu-system-sparc: -device lance,netdev=mynet0: Parameter 'driver'
      expects a pluggable device type
    
                - Michele