>> Already did it a long ago, but got no response, see bug#50477. > > Thank you. This bug report doesn’t seem to be about Guix System being > “unstable” with the Hurd. It is just about ping not working inside > qemu, which is a frequently encountered problem. See also the Hurd > wiki: > > […] note that ping doesn't work with QEMU's user-networking stack. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html
The Guix manual also warns against using ping to test networking: The default run-vm.sh script that is returned by an invocation of guix system vm does not add a -nic user flag by default. To get network access from within the vm add the (dhcp-client-service) to your system definition and start the VM using $(guix system vm config.scm) -nic user. An important caveat of using -nic user for networking is that ping will not work, because it uses the ICMP protocol. You’ll have to use a different command to check for network connectivity, for example guix download. https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html -- Ricardo
