>Ok, so nothing going out from qemu. Could you try to apply the attached patch >to qemu-2.9 and see what it makes qemu print when you resolve a domain from >the guest?
After applying patch, compiling, installing and then doing a nslookup request in the guest, I still receive no output in tcpdump and my logfile is empty: [mfonnemann@localhost qemu-2.9.0]$ make make all-recursive Making all in pixman make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in demos make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in test make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. CHK version_gen.h CC slirp/slirp.o CC slirp/socket.o CC slirp/udp.o LINK i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 LINK x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 [mfonnemann@localhost qemu-2.9.0]$ sudo make install [sudo] password for mfonnemann: make all-recursive Making all in pixman make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in demos make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. Making all in test make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. CHK version_gen.h install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/share/qemu" install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/var"/run install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/bin" install -c -m 0755 qemu-ga ivshmem-client ivshmem-server qemu-nbd qemu-img qemu-io "/usr/local/bin" strip "/usr/local/bin/qemu-ga" "/usr/local/bin/ivshmem-client" "/usr/local/bin/ivshmem-server" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-nbd" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-img" "/usr/local/bin/qemu-io" install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/libexec" install -c -m 0755 qemu-bridge-helper "/usr/local/libexec" strip "/usr/local/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper" set -e; for x in bios.bin bios-256k.bin sgabios.bin vgabios.bin vgabios-cirrus.bin vgabios-stdvga.bin vgabios-vmware.bin vgabios-qxl.bin vgabios-virtio.bin acpi-dsdt.aml ppc_rom.bin openbios-sparc32 openbios-sparc64 openbios-ppc QEMU,tcx.bin QEMU,cgthree.bin pxe-e1000.rom pxe-eepro100.rom pxe-ne2k_pci.rom pxe-pcnet.rom pxe-rtl8139.rom pxe-virtio.rom efi-e1000.rom efi-eepro100.rom efi-ne2k_pci.rom efi-pcnet.rom efi-rtl8139.rom efi-virtio.rom efi-e1000e.rom efi-vmxnet3.rom qemu-icon.bmp qemu_logo_no_text.svg bamboo.dtb petalogix-s3adsp1800.dtb petalogix-ml605.dtb multiboot.bin linuxboot.bin linuxboot_dma.bin kvmvapic.bin s390-ccw.img spapr-rtas.bin slof.bin skiboot.lid palcode-clipper u-boot.e500; do \ install -c -m 0644 /home/mfonnemann/qemu-2.9.0/pc-bios/$x "/usr/local/share/qemu"; \ done install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/share/qemu/keymaps" set -e; for x in da en-gb et fr fr-ch is lt modifiers no pt-br sv ar de en-us fi fr-be hr it lv nl pl ru th common de-ch es fo fr-ca hu ja mk nl-be pt sl tr bepo cz; do \ install -c -m 0644 /home/mfonnemann/qemu-2.9.0/pc-bios/keymaps/$x "/usr/local/share/qemu/keymaps"; \ done install -c -m 0644 /home/mfonnemann/qemu-2.9.0/trace-events-all "/usr/local/share/qemu/trace-events-all" for d in i386-softmmu x86_64-softmmu; do \ make --no-print-directory BUILD_DIR=/home/mfonnemann/qemu-2.9.0 TARGET_DIR=$d/ -C $d install || exit 1 ; \ done install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/bin" install -c -m 0755 qemu-system-i386 "/usr/local/bin" strip "/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386" install -d -m 0755 "/usr/local/bin" install -c -m 0755 qemu-system-x86_64 "/usr/local/bin" strip "/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64" [mfonnemann@localhost qemu]$ /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386 -display curses -readconfig qemu.cfg -D logfile root@qemu:~# nslookup www.google.com *** Unknown host nslookup: www.google.com: Unknown host [mfonnemann@localhost qemu]$ ls -Al logfile -rw-rw-r--. 1 mfonnemann mfonnemann 0 Apr 29 15:58 logfile Mark.