From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux_kvm@proinbox.com Subject: Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:11:52 -0400 Message-ID: <1286385112.6026.1398703073@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1286290127.19619.1398473465@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1286294888.11462.1398488135@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1286295603.7731.28.camel@x200> <1286343964.21446.1398603889@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4CAC719E.6060004@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Anthony Liguori" Return-path: Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:52856 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751447Ab0JFRLw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:11:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CAC719E.6060004@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: It's 8 otherwise- and after the patch is applied, it still only goes to 28 for some reason. 28's acceptable for my needs, so I'll step aside from here & leave it to the experts. As for the new -device method, that's all fine & good but AFAIK it's not implemented on my platform, so this was the answer. On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:54 -0500, "Anthony Liguori" wrote: > On 10/06/2010 12:46 AM, linux_kvm@proinbox.com wrote: > > Attached is a patch that allows qemu to have up to 32 NICs, without > > using the qdev -device method. > > > > I'd rather there be no fixed limit and we validate that when add fails > because there isn't a TCP slot available, we do the right thing. > > BTW, using -device, it should be possible to add a very high number of > nics because you can specify the PCI address including a function. If > this doesn't Just Work today, we should make it work. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori >