Re: Debian and QEMU virtio-net-device

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 06:29:38PM +0100, JF Straeten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:51:37AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > > If I don't specify any nic, QEMU supplies a default which is
> > > accepted by Debian. However, when I specify a virtio-net-device
> > > (so I can bridge to the host nic), I get no nic.
> 
> [...]
> > > -netdev
> > > -bridge,br=bridge0,id=net0,helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper
> > > -\ device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0,mac=DE:AD:BE:EF:37:30 \
> 
> Could you try with another macadress ?
> 
> Here (on amd64, though), sometimes qemu doesn't like some macadress,
> dunno why...
> 
> The tool 'macchanger' can create a valid one.

I tried with that mac address and I did not see a problem with that.

-- 
Len Sorensen