Dear all: I try to boot windows2012R2 (more than 64 cores)on kvm platform with hyper-v on*<relaxed state='on'/>*. the guest halts on the starting time. Also tested in these cases: <topology sockets='64' cores='1' threads='1'/> - boot sucess <topology sockets='1' cores='64' threads='1'/> - boot sucess <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='64'/> - boot sucess <topology sockets='1' cores='68' threads='1'/> - boot failed <topology sockets='68' cores='1' threads='1'/> - boot sucess(in Guest we can found 64) <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='68'/> - boot failed Environment: GUEST: windows2012R2 HOST: kernel version:4.10.0-rc4 QEMU version:QEMU emulator version 2.8.50 (v2.8.0-664-gd1c82f7-dirty) part of GuestXML: <vcpu placement='static'>68</vcpu> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu> <topology sockets='1' cores='68' threads='1'/> </cpu> ////////////////////////////////// debug info: virsh qemu-monitor-command win2012 --hmp "info cpus" CPU #61: pc=0xfffff8031296a21c thread_id=21410 CPU #62: pc=0xfffff8031296a21c thread_id=21411 CPU #63: pc=0xfffff8031296a21c thread_id=21414 CPU #64: pc=0x00000000000fd31c (halted) thread_id=21415 CPU #65: pc=0x00000000000fd31c (halted) thread_id=21416 CPU #66: pc=0x00000000000fd31c (halted) thread_id=21417 CPU #67: pc=0x00000000000fd31c (halted) thread_id=21418 Any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Gaohuai Han