Thank you for the info. Having info on Linux guests' behavior would be nice to have, but it's possible to extract the raw CPUID data seen by the Windows guest using an equivalent Windows tool (suggestions of tools are welcome).
Also, can somebody confirm if the same Windows version works as expected on bare metal? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1703506 Title: SMT not supported by QEMU on AMD Ryzen CPU Status in QEMU: New Bug description: HyperThreading/SMT is supported by AMD Ryzen CPUs but results in this message when setting the topology to threads=2: qemu-system-x86_64: AMD CPU doesn't support hyperthreading. Please configure -smp options properly. Checking in a Windows 10 guest reveals that SMT is not enabled, and from what I understand, QEMU converts the topology from threads to cores internally on AMD CPUs. This appears to cause performance problems in the guest perhaps because programs are assuming that these threads are actual cores. Software: Linux 4.12, qemu 2.9.0 host with KVM enabled, Windows 10 pro guest To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1703506/+subscriptions
