Re: d-i and qemu ?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Raphael Hertzog]
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I wanted to try d-i with qemu but it failed to detect the network card
> (although I made sure that qemu had network support by using the -n
> switch). Selecting the "ne" module by hand doesn't help either (I tried
> several modules related to NE2K).

The versions of qemu before 0.6.0 do not support PCI, and d-i do not
autodetect ISA cards.  I recommend upgrading to the latest version
qemu.  In version 0.6.0, both network and video card is
autodetected. :)

> Anyone managed to install debian with d-i within qemu ?

I do it several times a week. :)