Hi, I have successfully set up a vde network, and it works great! The only problem is that after a the tap device is deleted and created again, which is inevitable at a host shutdown, after, starting the win Xp sp2 guest with loadvm prevents the network from working, it only starts working again after a "repair" in the guest. I am using the e1000 driver in the guest. I assume that windows is guilty of this behavior, but i need to load the snapshots, and the VM should connect to the network without user intervention. Is there a work around? Am i doing something wrong ? vde configuration: tunctl -u 1 -t tap0 vde_switch -tap tap0 -mode -unix /tmp/vde.ctl -daemon ifconfig tap0 up promisc and start qemu with: -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=56:44:30:30:32 -net vde,sock=/tmp/vde.ctl -m 256 -- Alpar Torok -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html