This has been fixed in 0.12.4. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released
-- qemu 0.12.3 stalls under load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551220 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: Under load quemu 0.12.3 stalls. The load is created with stress software http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ with this command line: stress --cpu 32 --io 32 --vm 31 --vm-bytes 64M --hdd 32 --timeout 28800s -v the guest random stalling, my tests are on 45 qemu virtual machine on many kind of hardware hosts. I have two kind of qemu vm with kvm support, theese are the command lines. First kind: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm -cpu qemu32 \ -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=02:00:00:00:00:01 \ -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no \ -m 2048 \ -hda /usr/local/data/virtual/vm000/hda.img \ -hdb /usr/local/data/virtual/vm000/hdb.img \ -vnc :0 \ -monitor unix:/usr/local/data/virtual/vm000/vm000.sock,server,nowait \ -pidfile /usr/local/data/virtual/vm000/vm000.pid \ -no-reboot Second kind: qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm -cpu core2duo \ -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=02:00:00:00:00:02 \ -net tap,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no \ -m 5120 \ -hda /usr/local/data/virtual/vm001/hda.img \ -hdb /usr/local/data/virtual/vm001/hdb.img \ -vnc :1 \ -monitor unix:/usr/local/data/virtual/vm001/vm001.sock,server,nowait \ -pidfile /usr/local/data/virtual/vm001/vm001.pid \ -no-reboot When qemu i stalled keybord, nic and vnc do not answer but the qemu process remains active. No logs are generated. Hosts and guests have Vanilla kernel. Attached: cfghost = .config for the hosts cfgg32 = .config for the guest of type one cfgg64 = .config for the guest of type two