I have this exact same problem. I read of something very similar on this forum that it was a bug in the KVM BIOS and that a fix was coming, but I haven't seen a fix yet. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/46671
It occurred to me that perhaps it is a Windows 2008 Standard limitation since it will only run on 4 sockets: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/r2-compare-specs.aspx Does anyone know if the KVM CPUs show up in Windows at separate sockets instead of cores? -- Windows Server 2008 won't boot with more than 4 vCPUs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589063 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs