Yes, QEMU should come with the libslirp sources. Are you using git? Then maybe something went wrong with the checkout of the submodule. Is there something in your "slirp" folder? What do you get when you run "git submodule" ?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1917161 Title: Parameter 'type' expects a netdev backend type Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: When using QEMU on an M1 Mac with Mac OS 11.1, I see this error message when trying to enable networking for a guest: Parameter 'type' expects a netdev backend type Example command: qemu-system-i386 -m 700 -hda <Windows XP HD file> -netdev user,id=n0 -device rtl8139,netdev=n0 What should happen is networking should work when issuing the above command. What actually happens is QEMU exits immediately. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1917161/+subscriptions