Thank you very much, Henrik,
based on your reply I've found the relevant linux kernel TUN/TAP problem
description
in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.11-rc2
and was able to workaround the problem in my case with the small patch:
--- qemu-0.7.0/vl.c.orig20
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Vitaly Belostotsky wrote:
I've encountered some network related bug when using qemu with tun
and I'm willing to debug it but could you please provide some help.
you may want to try upgrading to the host kernel to 2.6.12. Had quite a
bit of issues with tun devices "hanging
