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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Hitting 29 NIC limit
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:00:14 -0600
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On 11/16/2010 11:23 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:17:36PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> On 10/14/2010 05:12 PM, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
>>      
>>> Thanks. Does this work for e1000 as well?
>>>        
>> Haven't tried.  I don't know how various e1000 drivers would react.
>>
>>      
>>> Also, does it support pci hotplug?
>>>        
>> No, but that's fixable down the road.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>      
> Probably not.
>    

FWIW, by fixable, I meant, we could add the ability to hot plug a 
multi-port NIC device.  For instance, we could have -device 
virtio-net-pci-x8 which would be an 8-port virtio-net card.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori