Re: Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-02-04 Thread Binarus
Jim, I just don't know how I could thank you! I have put multiple days into that problem and didn't remember nor see that I already have put -smp 1 later in the command. I think it would have cost me some more days or I would have been unable to solve the problem at all if you didn't give me

Re: Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-01-30 Thread Jim Paris
Binarus wrote: Dear all, it seems that I am unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to KVM guests. Whatever I do, the guests only report one CPU / core. ... /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -cpu host -smp cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1 -drive file=/dev/sda6,if=virtio,cache=none,index=0 -drive

Unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to guests

2012-01-29 Thread Binarus
Dear all, it seems that I am unable to pass multiple cores / CPUs to KVM guests. Whatever I do, the guests only report one CPU / core. Host hardware: Xeon E5620 on a Supermicro mainboard Host software: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) 64-Bit I have compiled my own (newer) kernel 2.6.37 for Natty (since I