> User mode network (SLIRP) only supports plain TCP and UDP, traceroute and ping (which need ICMP) do not work.
Indeed - wget google.com works just fine! Chris, your link to the documentation is helpful. Here's my modified command amitava@bonjovi:~/qemu$ kvm -name cold -m 512 -drive file=$PWD/cold.qcow2,if=virtio,boot=on -vnc :0 -netdev type=user,id=mynet0 -device e1000,netdev=mynet0 For folks who might be looking for tap/tun approach (to allow ssh'ing to the guest) - amitava@bonjovi:~/qemu$ sudo kvm -name cold -m 512 -drive file=$PWD/cold.qcow2,if=virtio,boot=on -vnc :0 -netdev type=tap,id=netdev0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=netdev0 Thank you Chris and Blue for your help. -Amitava
