diff --git a/src/drivers/bus/virtio-pci.c b/src/drivers/bus/virtio-pci.c
index 3311595f..1fcf9bae 100644
--- a/src/drivers/bus/virtio-pci.c
+++ b/src/drivers/bus/virtio-pci.c
@@ -358,12 +358,18 @@ int vpm_find_vqs(struct virtio_pci_modern_device *vdev,
             return -EINVAL;
         }
 
+        if (size > MAX_QUEUE_NUM) {
+            /* iPXE networking tends to be not perf critical so there's no
+             * need to accept large queue sizes.
+             */
+            size = MAX_QUEUE_NUM;
+        }
+
         vq = &vqs[i];
         vq->queue_index = i;
 
         /* get offset of notification word for this vq */
         off = vpm_ioread16(vdev, &vdev->common, COMMON_OFFSET(queue_notify_off));
-        vq->vring.num = size;
 
         vring_init(&vq->vring, size, (unsigned char *)vq->queue);
 
diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/virtio-ring.h b/src/include/ipxe/virtio-ring.h
index 6ba550b5..d2ded300 100644
--- a/src/include/ipxe/virtio-ring.h
+++ b/src/include/ipxe/virtio-ring.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static inline void vring_init(struct vring *vr,
    unsigned int i;
    unsigned long pa;
 
-        vr->num = num;
+   vr->num = num;
 
    /* physical address of desc must be page aligned */
 
@@ -103,13 +103,13 @@ static inline void vring_init(struct vring *vr,
    pa = (pa + PAGE_MASK) & ~PAGE_MASK;
    vr->desc = phys_to_virt(pa);
 
-        vr->avail = (struct vring_avail *)&vr->desc[num];
+   vr->avail = (struct vring_avail *)&vr->desc[num];
 
    /* physical address of used must be page aligned */
 
    pa = virt_to_phys(&vr->avail->ring[num]);
    pa = (pa + PAGE_MASK) & ~PAGE_MASK;
-        vr->used = phys_to_virt(pa);
+   vr->used = phys_to_virt(pa);
 
    for (i = 0; i < num - 1; i++)
            vr->desc[i].next = i + 1;