Hi Salil, With this series and latest upstream Linux kernel (host), I ran into core dump as below. I'm not sure if it's a known issue or not.
# uname -r 6.11.0-rc2-gavin+ # /home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64 -accel kvm \ -machine virt,gic-version=host,nvdimm=on -cpu host \ -smp maxcpus=2,cpus=1,sockets=2,clusters=1,cores=1,threads=1 \ -m 4096M,slots=16,maxmem=128G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=2048M \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=2048M \ -numa node,nodeid=0,memdev=mem0,cpus=0-0 \ -numa node,nodeid=1,memdev=mem1,cpus=1-1 \ : qemu-system-aarch64: Failed to initialize host vcpu 1 Aborted (core dumped) # gdb /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.0 /home/gavin/sandbox/qemu.main/build/qemu-system-aarch64 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000ffff9eec42e8 in __pthread_kill_implementation () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000ffff9ee7c73c in raise () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000ffff9ee69034 in abort () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x0000aaaac71152c0 in kvm_arm_create_host_vcpu (cpu=0xaaaae4c0cb80) at ../target/arm/kvm.c:1093 #4 0x0000aaaac7057520 in machvirt_init (machine=0xaaaae48198c0) at ../hw/arm/virt.c:2534 #5 0x0000aaaac6b0d31c in machine_run_board_init (machine=0xaaaae48198c0, mem_path=0x0, errp=0xfffff754ee38) at ../hw/core/machine.c:1576 #6 0x0000aaaac6f58d70 in qemu_init_board () at ../system/vl.c:2620 #7 0x0000aaaac6f590dc in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0xaaaac8911120 <error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2712 #8 0x0000aaaac6f5b728 in qemu_init (argc=82, argv=0xfffff754f1d8) at ../system/vl.c:3758 #9 0x0000aaaac6a5315c in main (argc=82, argv=0xfffff754f1d8) at ../system/main.c:47 Thanks, Gavin