From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46064 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P69iT-0001R1-3S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:22:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P69iS-00077q-4M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:22:33 -0400 Received: from exprod7og113.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.179]:41068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P69iR-00077a-Rz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:22:32 -0400 From: Anjali Kulkarni Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:18:55 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1286343964.21446.1398603889@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit (was 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" , Dustin Kirkland Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Hi, Using the legacy way of starting up NICs, I am hitting a limitation after 2= 9 NICs ie no more than 29 are detected (that's because of the 32 PCI slot limit on a single bus- 3 are already taken up) I had initially increased the MAX_NICS to 48, just on my tree, to get to more, but ofcource that wont work. Is there any way to go beyond 29 NICs the legacy way? What is the maximum that can be supported by the qdev mothod? Thanks Anjali On 10/5/10 10:46 PM, "linux_kvm@proinbox.com" wrote: > Attached is a patch that allows qemu to have up to 32 NICs, without > using the qdev -device method.