Elks networking

Do sockets/networking work in elks and if so to what extent and in
what environment.  In my environment of elks on qemu on Ubuntu on Vbox
on win8.1 when I try to run telnet I get a system crash.

But that is a lot of layers and opportunities for failure.  If I pared
it down to say elks on qemu on w8.1, or elks on vbox on w8.1, would
networking work at all?