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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-03-28 21:48:46 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-03-28 21:48:46 +0200
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Merge commit '96611f76b833159bafeab3443229dfa690178d92' into master-news_next
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@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ If you just want to access the internet from within QEMU, you can setup pfinet f
(See also <http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC32>.)
Outgoing internet connections should just work then.
+Testing it can be difficult with a minimal installation,
+but `apt-get update` should work after you have filled out
+`/etc/apt/sources.list`.
+After that you should be able to install other network packages,
+but note that `ping` doesn't work with QEMU's user-networking stack.
If you want to connect from the host system to the Hurd system running in QEMU, you need to setup something more advanced, like bridged networking.