Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] hw/arm/virt: increase max SMP CPU support to 8 for ARM virt

[Joel Schopp]

On 08/21/2014 09:51 AM, Wei Huang wrote:
> 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 <address@hidden>
Great minds think alike :)
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg03306.html


> ---
>   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)