Re: unable to use "-net user" argument after building from master branch

[Bin Meng]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:01 PM Neal Elliott <nealelliott@netscape.net> wrote:
>
> hello,
>             I'm unable to use the "-net user" argument with the compiled 
> "qemu-system-x86_64" binary. I get an error: "qemu-system-x86_64: -net user: 
> network backend 'user' is not compiled into this binary"
>
> I don't know what I'm missing when I used the configure script with the 
> following arguments:
>
>  ../configure --enable-linux-user --enable-user --enable-curses 
> --enable-vhost-net --enable-vhost-user --enable-png
>
> what am I doing wrong? what other arguments do I need to add to allow the 
> "-net user" option to work?
>

Please install libslirp dev package for your host distribution.

Regards,
Bin