<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: UbuntuRegular, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I am trying to run a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 which in turn is guest on Fedora 18 host. I am using qemu, kvm and libvirt. I tried to run the following command:</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: UbuntuRegular, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; font-family: UbuntuRegular, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans',
Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: UbuntuRegular, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', 'Ubuntu Beta Mono A', Consolas, 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', 'Ubuntu Beta Mono A', Consolas, 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">virt-install --name dsl --ram 1024 --vcpus 2 --cdrom /home/peeyush/Downloads/some_iso_file.iso --disk path=/path_to_disk</code></pre><pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom:
10px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', 'Ubuntu Beta Mono A', Consolas, 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><div class="post-text" itemprop="description" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 660px; line-height: 1.3; font-family: UbuntuRegular, Ubuntu, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif; white-space: normal;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; clear: both; word-wrap: break-word;">My machine here runs with only one vcpu. While when I tried the exact same thing on my Fedora 18 host, it shows two cpus. What am I doing wrong?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; clear: both; word-wrap:
break-word;">Thanks.</div></div></pre></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9E8FA9">~Peeyush Gupta</font></div></div></body></html>