Hi, > > I’d like to start the most minimal VM possible, but still want to be > > able to log in over SSH. With QEMU 7.2.1 the command below fails, as > > I > > am passing an incompatible NIC model:
> I've never tried it, so no clue whether it works, but you might want to > try: > > -netdev user,id=n1 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=n1 Should work (and give you virtio-net via virtio-mmio transport). virtio-pci transport can be used as well but requires -machine pcie=on, which isn't "most minimal". > -netdev user,id=n1 -device ne2k_isa,netdev=n1 Should work too, but I'd guess finding a linux distro kernel which has isa nic drivers enabled these days is a challenge ;) take care, Gerd
