Broken tap networking on macOS host Building QEMU with GLib newer than 2.58.3 corrupts tap networking. Tap device was provided by Tun/Tap kernel extension installed from brew: brew install tuntap Checked revisions: 553032d (v5.2.0) 6d40ce0 (v6.0.0-rc1) Host: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) macOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G2021) Guest: Linux Ubuntu 4.4.0-206-generic x86_64 Also tested macOS Catalina 10.15.7 as a guest, the behaviour is the same. QEMU command line: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -drive file=hdd.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2 \ -m 3G \ -nic tap,script=tap-up.sh tap-up.sh: #!/bin/sh TAPDEV="$1" BRIDGEDEV="bridge0" ifconfig "$BRIDGEDEV" addm "$TAPDEV" Enabling/disabling Hypervisor.Framework acceleration (`-accel hvf`) has no effect. How to reproduce: 1. Build & install GLib > 2.58.3 (tested 2.60.7, 2.60.7) 2. Build qemu-system-x86_64 with GLib > 2.58.3 3. Boot any guest any guest with tap networking enabled 4. See that the external network is inaccessible Hotfix: 1. Build & install GLib 2.58.3 2. Build qemu-system-x86_64 with GLib 2.58.3 3. Boot any guest with tap networking enabled 4. See that the external network is accessible, everything is working as expected