Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function

[Ryan H. <ry...@us...>]

* Anthony Liguori <ali...@us...> [2008-04-22 09:16]:
> This patch changes virtio devices to be multi-function devices whenever
> possible.  This increases the number of virtio devices we can support now by
> a factor of 8.
> 
> With this patch, I've been able to launch a guest with either 220 disks or 220
> network adapters.

Have you confirmed that the network devices show up?  I was playing
around with some of the limits last night and while it is easy to get
QEMU to create the adapters, so far I've only had a guest see 29 pci
nics (e1000).


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