Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest cannot see more than 1 cpu with -smp

[David Chow]

Hi all,

Does anyone have any success in SMP? because I saw many people talk 
about it in the list but personally no success on it. Any help will be 
appreciated. Thanks.

David

David Chow wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> With latest qemu 0.9.0, the -smp 2 doesn't work. guest os never sees 
> more than one CPU. I am running suse 10 on host and redhat el4 on 
> guest . Tried several attempts and seems doesn't work.
>
> I lookup some pcbios code, it seems bios attempt to read address 
> 0xf000 for num cpus, but not find in hw/pc.c or vl.c that deal with 
> this address . Is there are a problem on number of cpus not passing to 
> the bios of vm correctly?
>
> regards,
> David Chow