[Qemu-devel] Re: Hitting 29 NIC limit

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/16/2010 11:23 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 05:17:36PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
> > On 10/14/2010 05:12 PM, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> >      
> > > Thanks. Does this work for e1000 as well?
> > >        
> > Haven't tried.  I don't know how various e1000 drivers would react.
> >
> >      
> > > Also, does it support pci hotplug?
> > >        
> > No, but that's fixable down the road.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
> >      
> Probably not.
>    

FWIW, by fixable, I meant, we could add the ability to hot plug a 
multi-port NIC device.  For instance, we could have -device 
virtio-net-pci-x8 which would be an 8-port virtio-net card.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori