On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:56:00AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, > bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ > See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html > >From 56f426a0be9b0c2e6551ae7a841d236c5909b488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Richard Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:53:40 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] New APIs: set-network and get-network to enable network support. > > guestfs_set_network (g, true) enables network support in the appliance. > --- > src/generator.ml | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > src/guestfs-internal.h | 1 + > src/guestfs.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > src/guestfs.pod | 5 +++++ > src/launch.c | 8 ++++++++ > 5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c > index 1e1ea8e..df78b1a 100644 > --- a/src/launch.c > +++ b/src/launch.c > @@ -410,6 +410,14 @@ guestfs__launch (guestfs_h *g) > add_cmdline (g, "-device"); > add_cmdline (g, "virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0"); > > + /* Enable user networking. */ > + if (g->enable_network) { > + add_cmdline (g, "-net"); > + add_cmdline (g, "user,vlan=0,net=" NETWORK); > + add_cmdline (g, "-net"); > + add_cmdline (g, "nic,model=" NET_IF ",vlan=0"); > + } If you can rely on QEMU >= 0.12 then you should switch to using -netdev, since -net is going the way of the Dodo in upstream QEMU. eg -netdev user,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:1b:a1:fc