device: 0.802 other: 0.791 mistranslation: 0.764 network: 0.716 instruction: 0.681 semantic: 0.584 vnc: 0.579 graphic: 0.576 socket: 0.479 boot: 0.394 KVM: 0.182 assembly: 0.147 NUMA node binding are not supported by this QEMU I read https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1417937/, but I don't understand why it was only fixed on Ubunto. I'm running on Debian 8, openstack kilo, and trying to launch a VM with numa pinning. Is it not possible to build qemu with CONFIG_NUMA enabled for Debian where libnuma is present? it did turn out that my qemu had CONFIG_NUMA disabled. ended up upgrading it which solved it.