Installing the .iso on disk (file) "./Disk": qemu -cdrom dfly-20041222-stable.iso -hda ./Disk -boot d When you configure an interface, make your default route the IP address of the host system. Booting from the disk post-install: qemu -hda ./Disk -boot c -user-net Networking notes: -user-net use user mode network stack [default if no tap/tun script] -tftp prefix allow tftp access to files starting with prefix [-user-net] -smb dir allow SMB access to files in 'dir' [-user-net] -redir [tcp|udp]:host-port:[guest-host]:guest-port redirect TCP or UDP connections from host to guest [-user-net] See file "./boot", but -redir didn't work, however -user-net allowed dragonfly to ssh to seki, on address 10.0.2.2. I set DragonFly's IP address to 10.0.2.3. Nice long list of compatible operating systems: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html