[Qemu-discuss] Cannot connect to network

[Jerry Stuckle]

Hi, all,

First of all, I will admit I'm a programmer, not a Linux administrator,
so the problem can be anywhere.  But I strongly suspect it's in the way
I'm setting up QEMU.

Here's the setup.  Main system is Window 7.  Underneath that, I am
running Ubuntu 4.4.0.38 in VirtualBox.  This is working OK; I have two
NICs on the machine (wired and wireless, only one active at any one
time); VirtualBox is set up to bridge two virtual NICs to the two real
NICs, and the appropriate one is active in Ubuntu and gets an IP address
from the DHCP server.

Running QEMU 2.5.0 (the latest available in Ubuntu) I'm trying to bring
up a Debian system with:

qemu-system-arm -m 1024M \
                -sd /export/armhf.qcow2 \
                -M vexpress-a9 \
                -cpu cortex-a9 \
                -kernel /export/boot/vmlinuz \
                -initrd /export/boot/initrd.img \
                -append "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2"

This works fine, except the ethernet port (eth0) gets an ip address of
10.0.2.15 instead of one from our intranet and can't access anything on
the intranet or the internet.  (The interface is defined in Debian for
DHCP on eth0).

Right now I need to be able to connect and update the Debian system.
Eventually I will need other outbound services also, to connect to both
intranet and internet systems.

I will also eventually need to be able to connect into this system
(multiple ports/processes).  I know I can use hostfwd, but I'd much
rather have the guest system allocated an ip from our intranet.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I'm doing wrong, and how I can
correct it?  Hours of searching on the internet have turned up very little.

TIA,
Jerry