Description: Boot up a RHEL 3.0 guest with smp 16 and get a guest kernel panic: "Max APIC ID exceeded!". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel: 2.6.18-262 kvm: etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5 kmod-kvm-83-232.el5 kvm-tools-83-232.el5 kvm-83-232.el5 kmod-kvm-debug-83-232.el5 qemu: kvm-qemu-img-83-232.el5 gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-8.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up a RHEL3.9 guest with smp 16 Actual results: Boot up failed Expected results: Boot up succuss Additional info: 1. cmd line 2. cpu info: processor : 15 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 29 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7420 @ 2.13GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2127.902 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 3 siblings : 4 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 27 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 lahf_lm bogomips : 4255.88 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
Created attachment 501010 [details] Screen of kernel panic
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 707829 ***