From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJdzs-0007uR-61 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 04:15:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJdzn-00037N-J4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 04:15:11 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:60498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJdzn-00036p-DS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2016 04:15:07 -0500 From: "Li, Liang Z" Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:15:02 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Qemu-devel] about the 'mptable' issue List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "kevin@koconnor.net" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Cc: Paolo Bonzini , "Han, Huaitong" Hi Kevin, We just found when starting QEMU with the '-smp 20 -no-acpi' option, the c= entos6.6 or rhel 7.2 guest failed to boot. By debugging, I found it's your seabios patch, the commit id '9ee2e26255661a' caused the= failure. I don't know what issue your patch tried to fix, assuming it's the right fi= x, should we add some prompt to prevent users from using such an option? Crash the guest is not a good choice.=20 Liang