Hello Hector, On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 04:59:24PM +0100, Hector Cao wrote: > It is not enough to disable LPA2
Thank you for confirming. > The workaround I proposed is to switch to another CPU model: neoverse-n1 > I don't think that is a hard requirement to use -cpu max For the ipxe case, I agree. For debvm less so. The goal is to opportunistically enable kvm and there -cpu max is needed. When selecting a particular model, qemu is forced to use tcg. So instead, I need to figure out the problematic CPU features and disable those. Helmut
