[vbox-dev] Maximum number of host-only network adapters

[Alexey Eremenko]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Christophe Devriese
<christophe.devriese at gmail.com> wrote:
> VBoxNetAdpInternal.h
>
> #define VBOXNETADP_MAX_INSTANCES   8
>
> When I ran out of vboxnetX interfaces I wanted to know where the limit on
> this came from. Why only 8 ? Would it be possible to get a compiled version
> of virtualbox with this set to a higher value ? If possible, much higher so
> we never have to look for this again ...
>
> Would there really be any problem setting this to, say 256, or some other
> ridiculously high value ?
>

There is a wish opened:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6994

You can add comments there.

My personal opinion: for complex virtual network configurations it is
worth using TAP or VDE networks, not "host-only".

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"