# Suggestion for demo project on qemu

**URL:** <https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699>\
**Category:** Kernel\
**Created:** [August 7, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699 "2025-08-07T18:41:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![javid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@javid](https://forums.freertos.org/u/javid)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699/1 "2025-08-07T18:41:59Z")

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Hi , I want to use one of demo projects of FreeRTOS to be able to I run it on one of qemu machines and it support SMP on it. I has selected CORTEX\_MPS2\_QEMU\_IAR\_GCC at first but it dosen’t support SMP for using it with multi core.  
which demo project do you suggest?

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**Author:** ![aggarg](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/aggarg/32/4245_2.png) [@aggarg](https://forums.freertos.org/u/aggarg)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699/2 "2025-08-08T08:24:52Z")

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Currently we do not have a SMP project that you can use on Qemu.

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**Author:** ![javid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@javid](https://forums.freertos.org/u/javid)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699/3 "2025-08-08T08:40:12Z")

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thanks for your replay but what about RISC-V-Qemu-virt\_GCC?  
I have seen in its readme file that uses -smp 4 in the qemu command and included it is used to have 4 cores.

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**Author:** ![cubidesj](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/cubidesj/32/5403_2.png) [@cubidesj](https://forums.freertos.org/u/cubidesj)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/suggestion-for-demo-project-on-qemu/23699/4 "2025-08-08T08:51:03Z")

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> [@javid](#):
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> I have seen in its readme file that uses -smp 4 in the qemu command and included it is used to have 4 cores.

This means that qemu (the emulated hardware) runs a 4-core configuration. However the port of FreeRTOS running on top of that emulated hardware does not run in SMP mode.