Current ARM virt model supports up to 4 CPUs. Given that many recent ARM servers contain 8 or more cores, it is time to bump up max guest CPUs to 8. This patch was tested with a VM runnng 3.15 Linux kernel. All 8 VCPUs showed up.
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <[email protected]> --- hw/arm/virt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c index ba94298..73a2a0f 100644 --- a/hw/arm/virt.c +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static QEMUMachine machvirt_a15_machine = { .name = "virt", .desc = "ARM Virtual Machine", .init = machvirt_init, - .max_cpus = 4, + .max_cpus = 8, }; static void machvirt_machine_init(void) -- 1.8.3.1
