From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54548 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3TmG-0001Ca-5T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:11:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3TWM-0003Z7-HD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:54:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f173.google.com ([74.125.83.173]:41928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3TWM-0003Z0-BV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:54:58 -0400 Received: by pvh11 with SMTP id 11so2290968pvh.4 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CAC719E.6060004@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:54:54 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1286290127.19619.1398473465@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1286294888.11462.1398488135@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1286295603.7731.28.camel@x200> <1286343964.21446.1398603889@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1286343964.21446.1398603889@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: linux_kvm@proinbox.com Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Dustin Kirkland On 10/06/2010 12:46 AM, linux_kvm@proinbox.com wrote: > Attached is a patch that allows qemu to have up to 32 NICs, without > using the qdev -device method. > I'd rather there be no fixed limit and we validate that when add fails because there isn't a TCP slot available, we do the right thing. BTW, using -device, it should be possible to add a very high number of nics because you can specify the PCI address including a function. If this doesn't Just Work today, we should make it work. Regards, Anthony Liguori