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

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:42:47PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> What I mean is, I expect this feature (tcp connections in/out to/from
> "the internet" to vm) to work in guix system vm, as it is a normal
> expectation coming from NixOS and Gentoo that it just works without any
> added specialities.

Ping does not use TCP/IP. It uses ICMP, which is a different protocol.
QEMU has a variety of types of virtualized networking. The basic type
does not support ICMP.

You should use some other command to test the network. You could use
`guix download https://gnu.org/index.html`. It has the advantage of not
requiring any packages to be installed.