Multiple CPU for PPC virtual machine on x86_64 host

[BERBAR Florian]

Hello everyone,

I am working on 32 bit PPC systems on a qemu-ppc based virtual system 
but I have not been able to boot my virtual machine with multiple CPUs.

My host has the following versions:
- Linux version 5.10.0-15-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc-10 
(Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 
2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.120-1 (2022-06-09)
- QEMU emulator version 5.2.0 (Debian 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2)
Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

First, I tried to set the -smp option with the number of CPUs with the 
following command but the default machine type (g3beige) does not 
support more than one core.

$ qemu-system-ppc -m 2047M -smp 4 -hda -cdrom 
install-powerpc-minimal-20220122T062244Z.iso -boot d
qemu-system-ppc: Invalid SMP CPUs 4. The max CPUs supported by machine 
'g3beige' is 1


Then I also tried to change the machine type based on the list in the 
help output

$ qemu-system-ppc -M help
Supported machines are:
40p                  IBM RS/6000 7020 (40p)
bamboo               bamboo
g3beige              Heathrow based PowerMAC (default)
mac99                Mac99 based PowerMAC
mpc8544ds            mpc8544ds
none                 empty machine
ppce500              generic paravirt e500 platform
ref405ep             ref405ep
sam460ex             aCube Sam460ex
taihu                taihu
virtex-ml507         Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design


All machine expect mpc8544ds and ppce500 type gave me the same output of 
1 supported CPU.


The mpc8544ds and ppce500 machines give me the "QEMU 5.2.0 monitor" 
prompt right after starting but I don't really understand why...

Could someone help me to start a PPC virtual machine with more than one 
CPU?

Thank you very much

Florian