diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown-1.0/qemuarm64/interfaces b/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown-1.0/qemuarm64/interfaces
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+# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
+ 
+# The loopback interface
+auto lo
+iface lo inet loopback