networking devices supported by minimal install iso

shentino · n00b Joined: 21 Nov 2009 Posts: 63

I'm having trouble starting a qemu instance of gentoo.

What networking device should I pick in qemu to have it detected by the livecd's initramfs?

charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664

Use https://sysresccd.org instead of livecd.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 6:03 pm Post subject:

shentino,

A qemu instance it for all intents and purposes, provides fake hardware.
When you run lspci in the guest, what hardware does it have?
qemu provides a choice when you configure your guest.

If your host kernel has virtio support, guests may use the virtio interfaces.
This avoids using emulated hardware at all.
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