Bug 740914 – qemu-kvm is not able to emulate SMP (2 cores) for fedora-16

Bug 740914 - qemu-kvm is not able to emulate SMP (2 cores) for fedora-16

Summary:	qemu-kvm is not able to emulate SMP (2 cores) for fedora-16

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	qemu (Show other bugs)
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Version:	14
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2011-09-23 14:38 EDT by Sergei LITVINENKO
Modified:	2013-01-09 19:23 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2012-05-21 07:37:43 EDT
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fedora-16 guest log (-smp 2,maxcpus=2,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1) (56.99 KB, application/x-bzip2) 2011-09-23 14:38 EDT, Sergei LITVINENKO	no flags	Details
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Description Sergei LITVINENKO 2011-09-23 14:38:15 EDT

Created attachment 524673 [details]
fedora-16 guest log (-smp 2,maxcpus=2,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1)

Description of problem:

qemu-kvm is not able to emulate SMP for fedora-16a

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu-system-x86-0.13.0-1.fc14.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.35.14-96.fc14.i686

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. install fedora-16 (alpha) on virtual machine.
2. run it as:
 qemu-kvm -localtime -m 2000 -name Fedora-16a -vga vmware \
     -smp 2,maxcpus=2,cores=2,threads=1,sockets=1           \
     -drive file=fedora16-hd0.img,if=virtio,boot=on         \
     -drive file=fedora16-hd1.img,if=virtio,boot=off        \
     -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:16,model=virtio -net tap


Actual results:

guest is unstable, a lot of timeouts and error messages to console...

Expected results:

guest run as in single CPU mode.

Additional info:
See guest log (from boot and till shutdown)

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2012-05-21 07:37:43 EDT

F14 is no longer supported. If anyone is still affected by this bug with newer
qemu versions (fedora 16 or 17), please reopen this report.

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