Hi, > > I'm curious; what does tape backup have to do with the number of PCI > > slots/busses? > > I'm not very clear about how tape works in qemu, but the problem is pcie > devices under q35. The pcie topology requires one device per bus, therefore > the 256 bus might not be enough if we have many pcie devices.
Note that you can have multifunction pcie devices. so you can have up to 8 per pcie slot. Which allows close to 2000 devices. Limitation: They are not individually hotpluggable. cheers, Gerd _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios