On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 11:10:08PM +0100, Catonano wrote: > I managed to use system vm-image instead of system vm and I have to say it > fares better > > I can fiddle with qemu switches and I managed to allow my virtual machine > to reach out on the network, > > The machine is faster and less awkard, the terminal background is dark > instead of sun bright > > So this bug is not urgent > > But I still think this is a bug. system vm is a Guix feature and the > machine it provides should be able to get on the network, I think When you run the script created by `guix system vm`, you can add arguments to QEMU on the command-line. For example, $ /gnu/store/...-run-vm.sh -net user -net nic,model=virtio Or even: $(guix system vm config.scm) -net user -net nic,model=virtio