When run with -smp 17 or greather, kvm fails like this: $ kvm -smp 17 kvm_create_vcpu: Invalid argument kvm_setup_mce FAILED: Invalid argument KVM_SET_LAPIC failed Segmentation fault $ _ In qemu-kvm.c, the kvm_create_vcpu() routine (which is used in a vcpu thread to set up vcpu) is declared as void, i.e, no error return. And the code that calls it blindly assumes that it will never fail... But the first error message above is from kernel, which - apparently - refuses to create 17th vCPU. Hence we've a vcpu thread which is empty/dummy and not even fully initialized... so it fails later in the game. This all looks quite... raw, not polished ;) Can we somehow handle the (several possible) errors in that (and other) places, and how we ever can act on them? Abort? Warn the user and reduce the number of vcpus accordingly (seems wrong, esp. if it were some first vcpus or in the middle which failed)... Thanks! /mjt -- 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
