Hi, I am only able to bring up a single cpu on my guest even when I specify a 4 cpu smp config. My test machine is a two socket dual core woodcrest with 4GB RAM. I am using a stock RHEL5 kernel on my guest and 2.6.20-rc5 on my host.
The command I used is: qemu-kvm -hda vdisk2.img -smp 4 -boot c -m 1024 -no-acpi I've tried also without -no-acpi with the same result. Now when I switch to qemu-system-x86_64 without kvm, the guest boots with all 4 cpus being specified. >From the boot log, it looks like it is APIC related. Is this a known problem? Thanks. Tim Chen ------------Boot log on guest below---------------- boot log for command qemu-kvm -hda vdisk2.img -smp 4 -boot c -m 1024 -no-acpi Linux version 2.6.18-1.3002.el5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 9 21:19:58 EST 2007 Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI not present or invalid. ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000040000000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000040000000 Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: QEMUCPU Product ID: 0.1 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #1 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #2 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #3 6:0 APIC version 17 I/O APIC #4 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Setting APIC routing to physical flat Processors: 4 Nosave address range: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e8000 Nosave address range: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bffc0000) SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 257255 Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Checking aperture... Memory: 1025624k/1048576k available (2397k kernel code, 22564k reserved, 1222k data, 196k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5372.61 BogoMIPS (lpj=2686305) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Using IO-APIC 4 activating NMI Watchdog ... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 4636414 Detected 4.636 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/4 APIC 0x1 Not responding. Inquiring remote APIC #1... ... APIC #1 ID: failed ... APIC #1 VERSION: failed ... APIC #1 SPIV: failed SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 2/3 APIC 0x2 Not responding. Inquiring remote APIC #2... ... APIC #2 ID: failed ... APIC #2 VERSION: failed ... APIC #2 SPIV: failed SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 3/2 APIC 0x3 Not responding. Inquiring remote APIC #3... ... APIC #3 ID: failed ... APIC #3 VERSION: failed ... APIC #3 SPIV: failed Brought up 1 CPUs testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (0->0)! ----------------------------------------------------- Boot log for sucessfule brought up of 4 cpus with command: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda vdisk2.img -smp 4 -boot c -m 1024 -no-acpi Linux version 2.6.18-1.3002.el5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 9 21:19:58 EST 2007 Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb acpi=off BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI not present or invalid. No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000040000000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000040000000 Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: QEMUCPU Product ID: 0.1 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #1 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #2 6:0 APIC version 17 Processor #3 6:0 APIC version 17 I/O APIC #4 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Setting APIC routing to physical flat Processors: 4 Nosave address range: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e8000 Nosave address range: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bffc0000) SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 257255 Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb acpi=off Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Checking aperture... Memory: 1025624k/1048576k available (2397k kernel code, 22564k reserved, 1222k data, 196k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5481.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=2740609) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 starting audispd CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Using IO-APIC 4 activating NMI Watchdog ... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 62501278 Detected 62.501 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/4 APIC 0x1 Initializing CPU#1 calibrate_delay_direct() failed to get a good estimate for loops_per_jiffy. Probably due to long platform interrupts. Consider using "lpj=" boot option. CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 1/0 -> Node 0 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.8.2 stepping 03 CPU 1: Syncing TSC to CPU 0. CPU 1: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff -108 cycles, maxerr 5205480 cycles) SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 2/4 APIC 0x2 Initializing CPU#2 calibrate_delay_direct() failed to get a good estimate for loops_per_jiffy. Probably due to long platform interrupts. Consider using "lpj=" boot option. CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 2/0 -> Node 0 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.8.2 stepping 03 CPU 2: Syncing TSC to CPU 0. CPU 2: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff 1312276 cycles, maxerr 7810648 cycles) SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 3/4 APIC 0x3 Initializing CPU#3 calibrate_delay_direct() failed to get a good estimate for loops_per_jiffy. Probably due to long platform interrupts. Consider using "lpj=" boot option. CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 3/0 -> Node 0 QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.8.2 stepping 03 CPU 3: Syncing TSC to CPU 0. CPU 3: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff 2613452 cycles, maxerr 10414152 cycles) Brought up 4 CPUs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel