From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: 8 nic limit Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:58:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4E64730C.5050603@web.de> References: <4E621585.4080400@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB84AD17DA698EDE3F703E733" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Weinberger Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:57154 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744Ab1IEG6f (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:58:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E621585.4080400@nod.at> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB84AD17DA698EDE3F703E733 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-09-03 13:54, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Hi! >=20 > 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 >=20 > Why is MAX_NICS still only 8? > Please raise this limit in future releases. >=20 > 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 " and -netdev, you won't face this limit. Jan --------------enigB84AD17DA698EDE3F703E733 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5kcwwACgkQitSsb3rl5xQkTQCePzS/dDr1YtGD27gM/RHeM+6g mOAAoNHMtyJdadnOsC2ktWt+9zgvzeEs =TH5x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB84AD17DA698EDE3F703E733--