AQEMU 0.9.2 has issues with qemu 3.x, that’s why VMs fail to start with Invalid parameter 'vlan' no matter what you do in network GUI section. There’s a 0.9.6 that fixed this, but as it’s a dev-release it is not on HaikuDepot.
For me this works everytime:
- Enable network in the GUI, but don’t add any card
- Put this on General > Advanced Options:
-net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:97:xx:xx,model=pcnet (MACaddr to taste, and I like PCnet cards
)
-net user,hostname=vm_hostname
- Guest OS now grabs DHCP consistently, no need for manual IP except…
- Configure DNS manually as per @muffin 's tip
- Done!
For those interested: SliTaz is another small, tight and REALLY fast Linux distro, that also boots to RAM by default (at least the live ISO).