QEMU Virtualization: Network Not Automatically Detected

[novaTopFlex]

[]: This bug persists when memory is increased beyond 8GB.

I am unable to increase my memory beyond the suggested 8GB on my system as 8GB is already the size of system memory on my system.

Describe the bug

On QEMU virtual machines (QEMU version 9.0.0 for i386, x86_64), the system is unable to detect the appropriate network interface(s) after a while. Eventually, the system will fail to boot netboot.xyz v2.x and be forced to boot the main disk image (as in -boot c).

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enter the command qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=netboot.xyz.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom -drive file=AlpineTest.img,format=raw,media=disk -boot d.

Expected behavior

The virtual machine is not detecting my host's network connection even though my QEMU setup successfully accesses my Internet connection between my Linux host and my Linux guests.

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Additional context

I have previously been successful with booting my virtual machine to netboot.xyz v2.x but that was under QEMU version 6.2. I have since installed version 9.0 and now with this said version of QEMU am unable to boot this specific ISO (I have still been successful with other ISOs).

[antonym]

I tried on my Mac (M2) with QEMU 9.0 and the kernel and pulled it up without any issues:

qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu host -M virt,accel=hvf -m 4G \
-drive file=/opt/homebrew/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on \
-kernel netboot.xyz-arm64.efi \
-serial stdio \
-device virtio-gpu-pci \
-device nec-usb-xhci -device usb-kbd

It may be environmental, might also try different vnics.