Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function

Ryan Harper
2008-04-22T15:13:41Z

* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> [2008-04-22 09:16]:
> This patch changes virtio devices to be multi-function devices whenever
> possible. This increases the number of virtio devices we can support now by
> a factor of 8.
>
> With this patch, I've been able to launch a guest with either 220 disks or 220
> network adapters.

Have you confirmed that the network devices show up? I was playing
around with some of the limits last night and while it is easy to get
QEMU to create the adapters, so far I've only had a guest see 29 pci
nics (e1000).

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Ryan Harper
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