问题：

[单选] A customer is purchasing a 12-way p5-570 to run light development workloads on eight AIX 5.3 partitions with two network adapters each.  When the current network configuration was reviewed， it was discovered that they only have four Ethernet ports available on their network switch.  Which of the following solutions would prevent them from having to buy another network switch or hub？（）

A . Add two HMCs with two Ethernet adapters each and run EtherChannel for the original eight partitions.
B . Add two HMCs with two Ethernet adapters each and run Virtual Ethernet for the original eight partitions.
C . Add two hosting partitions with two Ethernet adapters each and run EtherChannel for the original eight partitions.
D . Add two hosting partitions with two Ethernet adapters each and run Virtual Ethernet for the original eight partitions.