[libvirt] Support for more than 32 virtio devices

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:09:07AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I make use of "multifunction" functionality to support
> more than 32 virtio devices in QEMU through libvirt ?

It isn't supported because it doesn't work with hotplug.

> Are there corresponding changes in libvirt ?

To increase the number of devices in a usable manner, we we're waiting
for QEMU to support either

 - A virtio block controller with multiple disks
 - A PCI bridge to allow > 28 PCI devices

Daniel
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