When a VM has an SR-IOV NIC, the VMI controller adds the `kubevirt.io/network-info` annotation to the virt-launcher pod.

This annotation's value is a JSON array derived from the Multus network status annotation (`k8s.v1.cni.cncf.io/network-status`).

When there are multiple SR-IOV NICs, the order of the JSON array keeps changing - thus the VMI controller repeatedly patches the pod.

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1. Create a VM with multiple SR-IOV NICs (see example in the upstream issue).

VMI controller patches the pod whenever the JSON array element order changes

VMI controller will only patch the pod when required

First reported in:
https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues/14442