Thanks, I could not get it to work with QEMU/KVM but it does now work with qemu-system-amd64. I am not fully certain yet why that is. I would not be surprised if -M q35 is somehow ignored when running as KVM
Jan On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 12:01 AM NexusSfan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/27/26 12:17 AM, Jan Jaeger wrote: > > I have installed the smp kernel and am trying to run with more than one > CPU > > (under QEMU) and I do get lockups, where it appears that one CPU goes > into > > a loop and the system stalls. > > > > I have no issues when I run with -smp 1 (on the qemu commandline), > however > > it does lock up with -smp 2 or more. Also, it appears that it gets a > lot > > further when I specify more CPUs (e.g. 8), but it then still locks up, > but > > at a later stage. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Jan > > Not sure. I've only tried SMP on real hardware, not in QEMU. Although > QEMU should always work. > > -- > NexusSfan > GNU.org - Please support free software. > >
