[Qemu-devel] Networking difficulties

[Aram Fingal]

I now have Qemu working after reading archives of this list to figure 
out how to configure it.  I have some people here who are waiting to 
upgrade from PowerMac G4's to G5's until there is decent Windows 
emulation available.  At least one of these people will  go ahead and 
buy a G5 if Qemu, on that machine will outperform Virtual PC on her old 
400 Mhz G4.  I think it does except for networking.

Network access worked immediately when I set Win2k for DHCP but it is 
dead slow and corrupts some downloads.  It takes disproportionately 
long to load web sites and I can hardly use Windows network shares at 
all.  It sometimes fails just opening folders on a remote disk.  
Anything I ping looses all packets yet I can get some access and browse 
the web.  Internet access is, of course, fine on the host machine.

I'm running Windows 2000 Professional installed from an academic 
bulk-license CD on a 3 GB image on a dual 2 Ghz G5 with 2.5 GB RAM.  I 
have been invoking Qemu with the RAM for the emulation environment 
upped to 512 MB rather than the default 128 MB.