network: 0.803 socket: 0.698 device: 0.672 graphic: 0.648 semantic: 0.569 performance: 0.425 permissions: 0.344 other: 0.323 PID: 0.322 boot: 0.197 vnc: 0.195 debug: 0.183 files: 0.077 KVM: 0.066 netdev user,restrict=on prevents forwarded ports from being accessed from other systems I've got a guest only network and I'm wanting to access SSH on one of the guests externally. I'm using -netdev user,id=usernet0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22,restrict=yes -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=usernet0 to forward 2222 to 22 in the guest. The docs state: restrict=on|off If this option is enabled, the guest will be isolated, i.e. it will not be able to contact the host and no guest IP packets will be routed over the host to the outside. This option does not affect any explicitly set forwarding rules. However, with restrict=on, the forwarded port is only accessible from the host. Other systems receive no data. This was tested with qemu 2.8. Changelog for 2.9 doesn't mention any (relevant) user networking changes, so that should also fail. slirp (i.e. user networking) has been moved to a separate project... does this problem still persist with the latest version of QEMU? If so, could you please report it to the libslirp project instead: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/issues Thanks! [Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]