other: 0.260 device: 0.175 semantic: 0.140 boot: 0.103 PID: 0.073 debug: 0.051 vnc: 0.037 files: 0.034 graphic: 0.029 permissions: 0.025 performance: 0.025 socket: 0.023 network: 0.019 KVM: 0.008 debug: 0.364 performance: 0.109 boot: 0.109 socket: 0.062 files: 0.058 other: 0.056 network: 0.055 PID: 0.051 semantic: 0.033 device: 0.033 graphic: 0.027 permissions: 0.015 KVM: 0.015 vnc: 0.012 ovmf + smp + hyper-v + windows 7: doesn't work - using ovmf - enable smp (>1 processors/cores) - enable hyper-v features (eg. -cpu Haswell,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff) - try to boot or install windows 7 x64 Result: black screen and hangs Sigh, the Windows bug that keeps on giving. And, users avoiding libvirt and sticking with the QEMU command line, despite the fact that using libvirt & its tools would save them from this bug. Anyway, this report is a duplicate of ; please read that one for the background. Closing this one as invalid (just like the other one). Thanks.