** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1353149
Title: qemu 2.1.0 fails to start if number of cores is greater than 1. Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: qemu (kvm) 2.1.0 (built from sources) fails to start if number of cores is greater than 1. relevant part of commandline arguments: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name test3 -S -machine pc- i440fx-2.1,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu Westmere -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,maxcpus=4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 the error reported is: qemu-system-x86_64: /home/asavah/pkgbuild/qemu-2.1.0/hw/i386/smbios.c:825: smbios_get_tables: Assertion `smbios_smp_sockets >= 1' failed. 2014-08-05 21:45:35.825+0000: shutting down however setting 4 sockets with 1 core each allows me to start the machine just fine. the system is debian wheezy Linux hostname 3.16.0-hostname2 #2 SMP Mon Aug 4 17:02:16 EEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux libvirt 1.2.7 (built from sources) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1353149/+subscriptions