Hello,
Do any of the cloud providers supported by the cloud kernel build (primarily AWS and Azure) offer VMs with >64 physical cores? noah
After doing more research, it appears that the use of the -smp 96 option without any other precision creates a VM with one core and 96 sockets.
When using the option --smp cores=96 the VM is created with 96 cores and one socket and the 4.19.0-13 boots correctly.
So the addition of MAXSMP is not required to have a VM correctly started with more than 64 cpus.
Thanks for you attention, Kind regards, ...Louis