Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-system-sparc and network devices

[Jan Orliński]

Hi,

thank You for Your answers.

As I stated before the problem is that qemu-system-sparc does not seem
to support the NIC. When I append the following line to the qemu parameters:

-netdev tap,id=net1,ifname=tap0,script=qemu-ifup,downscript=no -net
nic,netdev=net1,model=lance

I get following warnings:

Warning: netdev net1 has no peer
Warning: requested NIC (anonymous, model lance) was not created (not
supported by this machine?)

Note that qemu-ifup is a script that adds the interface tap0 to a
network bridge (created earlier with brctl). Interface tap0 is created
before the qemu is run with:

tunctl -u <user> -t tap0

The second warning complains about the lack of support for the NIC. The
first warning is caused by a fact that the network backend (tap device)
is not connected to any frontend NIC I guess.

Regards,

Jan Orliński


On 03/02/2018 23:30, Scott Harris wrote:
> Hi
>
> The qemu-system-sparc has a 'lance' model NIC built in and so doesn't
> require adding it as a device to the configuration. For my application
> that involves getting Sparcstation2 software to run on a Linux PC, the
> command line looks something like :
>
> qemu-system-sparc -M "SS-5" -m 256\
>  -nographic -parallel vc\
>  -name "Netbsd 5"\
>  -drive "file=Boot.qcow2,index=0,media=disk"\
>  -boot order=cd,menu=off\
>  -net nic,vlan=0,model=lance,macaddr=DE:AD:BE:EF:F3:E5\
>  -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no\
>  -localtime
>
> The file 'qemu-ifup' is required prior to running qemu-system-sparc to
> create a tap0 and then bridge it to the host's eth0 device (for my
> case). This works fine and gives the virtual sparc machine access to
> my local network where a dhcp server will give it a local IP address
> and everybody is happy.
>
> This setup works fine for my purposes but the '-net' option is
> deprecated. I personally would like to avoid the deprecated options
> but I can't actually get the recommended '-netdev' option to work
> properly with qemu-system-sparc. You can't actually add a 'lance'
> device to the virtual sparc machine because one is built in and you
> apparently can't have more than one NIC in a typical SparcStation5 (or
> similar) system. Any attempts I have made to set the lance NIC device
> global prameters on the command line seem to work fine (or at least
> don't flag an error) but the virtual machine NIC still fails to have a
> MAC address assigned  to it (other than 00:00:00...) and the bridged
> networking fails. HTH
>
> Best regards
> Scott Harris, P.Eng.
>
> S
> On 2018-02-02 6:23 AM, Jan Orliński wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was recently doing some development for sparc architecture and
>> realized that qemu-system-sparc does not support any NIC. When I list
>> available devices with `qemu-system-sparc -device ?` no network device
>> appears. I tried it with Qemu versions 2.0, 2.9 and 2.11. Does it mean
>> that Qemu for sparc does not support any network device? I find this odd
>> as the qemu-system-sparc64 seems to support a long list of NICs. I found
>> a thread [Qemu-discuss] need help in setting up tap networking for using
>> qemu vir
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2014-09/msg00056.html>
>> describing the LAN9220 usage, so I guess it is somehow possible (by
>> applying some patch maybe?).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jan
>>
>
>