Re: Network with QEMU generated image (guix system vm)?

[David Craven]

> It should be enough to add “-net user” on the run-vm.sh command line
> (info "(guix) Running GuixSD in a VM"), and then having a DHCP client
> run inside the VM, such as ‘dhcp-client-service’.

Ah, yes this probably needs some documentation. Also should include an
explanation why the flag isn't added by default and how to connect to
a ssh server running in the vm.

> Currently I can't ping

You can't ping a vm anyway since it emulates the TCP/UDP layers I
think and no ICMP. [0]

[0] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78953/qemu-how-to-ping-host-network