On Thu Feb 7 2013 17:50, Jan Lambertz wrote: > I also tried the socket trick in different setups but couldn't make it > work.
You *do* boot bsd.mp, right? Because bsd.rd never recognised a such configured VM as being SMP-capable in my case, and installed bsd.sp by default, instead. > I tried a smp 4,threads 1 cores 1 sockets 4. Sysctl tells cpus are > found but not used. Did you pass any special cpu information to qemu ? Sorry, I can't tell. I used RHEV 3.1 and by increasing the number of sockets, it linearly increased the number of cores, too. So, did you try 4 cores and 4 sockets, then?

