Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Peter Baumgarten writes:
>
>> I am following along with the steps to get GuixSD installed in a VM here https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
>> manual/guix.html#Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM and I am stuck on getting the VM to have internet access. It is able
>> to get an ip address but pinging gnu.org or google.com does not work. I am able to ping both from my host
>> machine.
>
> Don't try to use ping (ICMP) to test the network.  Use someting tcp/udp,
> wget/ssh for example.

To expand on this a little, the default networking mode in Qemu does not
support ICMP (ping). For more information (and ways to enable it), see:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking