The 'virt' machine uses virtio-net-pci as a fallback when no other network driver has been selected via command line. Select VIRTIO_NET and VIRTIO_PCI from CONFIG_ARM_VIRT to avoid errors when PCI_DEVICES=n (due to e.g. --without-default-devices):
$ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -accel tcg -cpu max qemu-system-aarch64: Unsupported NIC model: virtio-net-pci Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de> --- hw/arm/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/Kconfig b/hw/arm/Kconfig index 2d157de9b8..8dcc08b7ec 100644 --- a/hw/arm/Kconfig +++ b/hw/arm/Kconfig @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ config ARM_VIRT select VIRTIO_MEM_SUPPORTED select ACPI_CXL select ACPI_HMAT + select VIRTIO_PCI + select VIRTIO_NET config CHEETAH bool -- 2.35.3