This problem seems to be related to xp running with no ACPI, I installed xp again but told virt-manager it was vista and the 2 cores worked fine, but of course it would freeze when shutting down and restarting to I switched from ACPI to Standard PC and it only used one core.
-- KVM eats 100% CPU, Host Hardy64, Guest XP with more than 1 VCPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228442 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs