Re: If your networking is failing after updating to the latest git version of QEMU...

[Jason Wang]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:06 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>
> On 28/9/22 10:27, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >
> > ... it might have happened due to the removal of the "slirp" submodule
> > from the git repository. For example if you see an error message like this:
> >
> >   Parameter 'type' expects a netdev backend type
> >
> > this likely means that the "user" mode backend type is not available in
> > your binary anymore. To fix it, simply install "libslirp-devel" (or
> > libslirp-dev or however it is called) from your OS distribution and
> > recompile.
>
> Thanks for the hint Thomas. I'm afraid many developers will miss your
> email.
>
> Jason, Marc-André, could we improve the buildsys check or display
> a more helpful information from the code instead?

It looks to me we need to improve the build.

Thanks

>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
>