From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 8 nic limit
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:58:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E64730C.5050603@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E621585.4080400@nod.at>
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On 2011-09-03 13:54, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> qemu-kvm seems to support only 8 network interfaces.
> I found this posting from 2009:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg10104.html
>
> Why is MAX_NICS still only 8?
> Please raise this limit in future releases.
>
> I have some use cases where much more than 8 nics are needed.
> (Lot's of VLANs...)
If you avoid the legacy -net and create networks via "-device <nic>" and
-netdev, you won't face this limit.
Jan
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-03 11:54 8 nic limit Richard Weinberger
2011-09-05 6:58 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
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2010-10-05 16:19 Fwd: Re: 8 NIC limit linux_kvm
2010-10-05 18:39 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-05 14:48 linux_kvm
2010-10-05 15:24 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-10-05 15:57 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-10-05 16:20 ` linux_kvm
2010-10-05 16:43 ` Brian Jackson
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