Please specify what qemu version you are using, what options you used, and what version of the 9front code you are using, and what the content of plan9.ini is.

On February 9, 2015 3:19:51 AM PST, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
>Hi, I have a running 9front on qemu (windows), but I've a few
>questions:
>
>1) sysupdate can't update the system, because of networking issues,
>mothra can't browse the web too). I'm using user networking, as
>described in
>https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa3#3.3.1_-_Qemu
>Any suggestions?
>
>2) while fshalt -r reboots, scram does not shutdown the virtual machine
>
>What's going wrong?
>
>
>Giacomo