By now you know original network configuration was temporary. Why no configuration choice on real and virtual systems exists to make the configuration permanent I don't know. Time to repeat network configuration on installed virtual system. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 13 Mar 2023, Rino Mardo wrote: > as a test, i installed in qemu archlinux to make sure i won't be left with > an installation that have no network configured. during install, the nic > was configured and am able to update the repo online. > > after install, my archlinux vm have no configured networking! why is that? > how do i make sure that networking works after an installation? >