On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> -current no longer seems to need -no-acpi (thanks to whomever put
>> in the necessary changes).  ne0 (was ne2) is not in GENERIC but
>> still requires in the QEMU configuration.
> Hi,
>    This is good news.  When I've ran 4.0 with -no-acppi, I still get poor
> networking performance.  In fact, ne2k and all other network devices seem to
> time out regularly.  I never noticed this in 3.1.  In fact, ne2's
> performance is so poor that the DHCP request goes unacknowledged...
>    I hope this won't be an issue in the real 4.0.  Any tips in the meantime
> to work around it?

What networking options are you using? By default, qemu uses its own 
user-mode stack and so DHCP is done by qemu itself.

-- 
Stephen