[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana on KVM problem

[Jörg Stephan]

Hi there,

i run openindiana as a test environment on an linux kvm server. My
serviceprovider informed me that my cpu uses 100% all over the time. So
i noticed that

root at vs3:~# dmesg | grep cpu
Mar 27 12:57:38 vs3 unix: [ID 223955 kern.info] x86_feature: cpuid
Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: x86 (chipid 0x0
GenuineIntel 623 family 6 model 2 step 3 clock 2500 MHz)
Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: QEMU Virtual CPU
version 1.0.50
Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 608849 kern.notice] NOTICE: System
detected 2 cpus, but only 1 cpu(s) were enabled during boot.
Mar 27 12:57:43 vs3 unix: [ID 458440 kern.notice] NOTICE: Use
"boot-ncpus" parameter to enable more CPU(s). See eeprom(1M).

Trying to enable the second cpu via

eeprom boot-ncpus=2 

does not succeed.

root at vs3:~# psrinfo -vp
The physical processor has 1 virtual processor (0)
  x86 (GenuineIntel 623 family 6 model 2 step 3 clock 2500 MHz)
        QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0.50

I know that is basically a problem on KVM side, but maybe some one has
an idea to solve it. In addition to that there is now reason which
causes the kvm to tell the machine uses 100% cpu, cause it idles 82%
most of the time.

Regards

Jörg