On 27.04.2011 15:01, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
Please review my 16 vNICs per VM patch. This is needed by GNS3.
That's easy to review: it doesn't work. Slot 20 is used by the LSILogic SCSI controller, 21 by the BusLogic SCSI controller, 22 by the LSILogic SAS controller. If any of those controllers would be enabled the VM wouldn't start any more.
There's a reason why we didn't go for so many NICs - it would exhaust the PCI slot space in the default chipset. Fixing your code to skip those already assigned slots would leave exactly one slot free. Not the kind of situation I consider desirable for a product which is nowhere near EOL.
Supporting so many NICs only makes sense with the "big iron" setup, using the ICH9 chipset, where PCI bridges allow much more devices.
---- I also opened VirtualBox Bug #8772: Only first 4 out of 8 ethernet cards work with Windows XP guest.
Such problems are often caused by ACPI or MP table bugs in the BIOS. Klaus _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
