>Could you show us your NG.cfg, your guest /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route >output and /etc/resolv.conf >content for that host?
[mfonnemann@desktopPC qemu]$ cat NG.cfg [drive] format = "raw" file = "qemu_rootfs_512.img" [drive] format = "raw" file = "placeholder2.vhdx" [drive] format = "raw" file = "swap_512m.img" [drive] format = "vhdx" file = "placeholder.vhdx" [machine] usb = "on" initrd = "initrd-2.6.11.12.img.gz" kernel = "vmlinuz-2.6.11.12-vanilla.bz" append = "root=/dev/hda" [memory] size = "2G" [smp-opts] cpus = "2" root@qemu:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:12:34:56 inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Base address:0xc000 Memory:febc0000-febe0000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 root@qemu:~# route UDP packet for DNS server translating 302000a against ffffff 302000a it's an alias it's DNS dns_addr is cached: 1020204 got resolv.conf entry '4.2.2.1' Kernel IP routing table parsed 7fe2 Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface '4.2.2.2' 10.0.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 default 10.0.2.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 root@qemu:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 10.0.2.3 root@qemu:~# nslookup www.google.com *** Unknown host nslookup: www.google.com: Unknown host HTH It appears using the "route" command causes your DNS debug statements to print out but still nslookup does not work correctly. mark.