Invalid parameter 'queues'. multi-queue vhost-user backends does not work. The command line which I use: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name instance-00000006 -S -machine pc-i440fx-2.4,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu Haswell-noTSX,+abm,+pdpe1gb,+rdrand,+f16c,+osxsave,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme -m 1024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -object memory-backend-file,id=ram-node0,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/hugepages/libvirt/qemu,share=yes,size=1073741824 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0 -uuid 54d61ffc-c8cf-4227-9610-96bcf1590984 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=OpenStack,product=OpenStack,version=2014.1.3,serial=44454c4c-3300-1043-804c-b5c04f463532,uuid=54d61ffc-c8cf-4227-9610-96bcf1590984 -no-user-config -nodefaults -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/54d61ffc-c8cf-4227-9610-96bcf1590984/disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -chardev socket,id=charnet0,path=/var/run/vrouter/uvh_vif_tap35abd3c0-4f -netdev type=vhost-user,id=hostnet0,chardev=charnet0,queues=5 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mq=on,mac=02:35:ab:d3:c0:4f,bus=pci.0,mq=on,addr=0x3 -chardev file,id=charserial0,path=/var/lib/nova/instances/54d61ffc-c8cf-4227-9610-96bcf1590984/console.log -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev pty,id=charserial1 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 10.10.6.14:0 -k en-us -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -msg timestamp=on The error information : 2015-09-14T06:16:05.914264Z qemu-system-x86_64: -netdev type=vhost-user,id=hostnet0,chardev=charnet0,queues=5: Invalid parameter 'queues' You should use qemu 2.5.0. Looking through old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays? [Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]