qemu-vmnet

⚠️ The project has been archived because now QEMU supports vmnet natively as network device. See: qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -netdev help

Native macOS networking for QEMU using vmnet.framework and socket networking.

Requirements

• macOS 10.10 or later.
• Any QEMU version that supports socket networking, I tested it with 6.1.0 on ARM.

Getting started

Install qemu-vmnet

The only way for now is to have a working Go environment and install qemu-vmnet with:

go install github.com/alessiodionisi/qemu-vmnet@latest

Start qemu-vmnet

You have to start qemu-vmnet with sudo, this is a requirement of vmnet.

Example:

sudo qemu-vmnet

Add a network device

You need to add a new network device to your virtual machine.

Note: netdev value is the id of the network device, can be any value.

Example:

-device virtio-net,netdev=net0

Configure the network device

The network device you just added must be configured to use socket networking and UDP port 2233 (can be changed, see Options).

Note: localaddr can be any free port, but you must specify it.

Example:

-netdev socket,id=net0,udp=:2233,localaddr=:1122

Enjoy

Enjoy your fully working networking with a dedicated IP!

Options

• -address sets the listening address (default ":2233")
• -cpuprofile file write cpu profile to file
• -debug sets log level to debug
• -memprofile file write memory profile to file
• -trace sets log level to trace

In the future vmnet can be configured in bridged mode :)