It's 8 otherwise- and after the patch is applied, it still only goes to 28 for some reason. 28's acceptable for my needs, so I'll step aside from here & leave it to the experts. As for the new -device method, that's all fine & good but AFAIK it's not implemented on my platform, so this was the answer. On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:54 -0500, "Anthony Liguori" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/06/2010 12:46 AM, linux_kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html