Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > Hello Iam using kvm83 on CentOS5.2 > > my system has 2x dual Core intel CPU > > Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz > > asdetected by Centos. > > If I start kvm-qemu with no CPU option everythign works and hte guest > machine detects cpu as > > QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 > > > iv I run qemu-kvm -cpu core2duo > > the guest hangs at boot time when it detects the CPU. > > I do not know how to fix it. > > I also do not know if using -cpu swtch can improve performances. Yes, -cpu core*duo is broken in kvm < 84. Please use the default. There's usually no real benefit for anyone to use a specific cpu type, unless you know that you need it. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html