On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:57:14 -0400 Tom Horsley wrote:
I went ahead and used qemu:
HA! It looks like it is indeed a microsoft bug, and not a qemu problem. After sneaking up on windows updates a few at a time starting from a new XP install (which has other problems these days [1]), I finally found the ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile" was the one responsible. If I uninstall it, the network goes back to starting up as soon as I boot.
Time to tell Windows Update "never install that!" :-).
[1] other problems: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579348