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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] increase MAX_NICS value
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:59:02 +0200
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Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> max number of allowed nics per vm is hardcoded on net.h to 8. This value
> it's too low in situation with big network, increase to 24
> this should be safe as mentioned on this thread
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/1/29/4848304/thread
>
> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@gmail.com>

1. Doesn't this belong upstream?  qemu-devel@nongnu.org

2. MAX_NICS applies only to -net nic.  Use -device instead.  See
   docs/qdev-device-use.txt