RE: [Xen-devel] guests with >3 NICs

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> i need more than three NICs per guests (virtual network lab). 
> One year ago there was a discussion about this:
>  
> <http://lists.xensource.com/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=
NR_GRANT_FRAMES&submit=Search&idxname=xen-devel>
> <http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183>


Chris Clark wrote a patch to enable this to be configurable a couple of
months back. I'll look in to the status.

Ian
 
> I still have the 3-nic-limit on my FC6, so my questions:
> 
> * Do i only have to change NR_GRANT_FRAMES in
>   xen/include/xen/grant_table.h to #nics+1 to set a higher nic limit?
> 
> * Is there a compile-time or - much better - boot-time option to
>   increase the nic limit? If it's not allready there, i vote for a
>   boot-time option.
> 
> * Which parts of xen are affected by increasing the nic limit
>   (hypervisor, tools, dom0-kernel, domU-kernel)?
> 
> Regards, nils
> 
> 
> 
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