* linux_kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (linux_kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi again everybody, > > One of the admins at the ProxmoxVE project was gracious enough to > quickly release a package including the previously discussed change to > allow up to 32 NICs in qemu. You mean they patched qemu to increase the MAX_NICS constant? Nice to get the quick turn around. Te better choice is to use a newer command line. Not only does it avoid the MAX_NICS limitation, but it also enables standard virtio-net offload accelerations. > For future reference the .deb is here: > ftp://download.proxmox.com/debian/dists/lenny/pvetest/binary-amd64/pve-qemu-kvm_0.12.5-2_amd64.deb > > Upon creating & running the VM with the newly patched qemu-kvm app > installed, I found a NIC limitation remained in place, presumably > imposed by some other aspect of the environment. > > The machine would start when it had 33 PCI devices, as long as no more > than 28 of them were NICs. The PCI bus has only 32 slots (devices), 3 taken by chipset + vga, and a 4th if you have, for example, a virtio disk. Are you sure these are 33 PCI devices and not 33 PCI functions? thanks, -chris -- 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
