On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Thanks. Opened [feature-request] Please support 16 vNICs per VM, WIsh #8805 -and- Added my patch to "VirtualBox OSE" forum, for those who need it anyway. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
