From: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Testing-SMM-with-QEMU,-KVM-and-libvirt#uefi-variable-access-test #---------------------------------------------------- [root@f26-ovmf-vm2 ~]# time taskset -c 0 efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0001 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0001,0000 Boot0000* UiApp Boot0001* Fedora real 0m0.014s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.008s #---------------------------------------------------- [root@f26-ovmf-vm2 ~]# time taskset -c 1 efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0001 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0001,0000 Boot0000* UiApp Boot0001* Fedora real 0m0.009s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.008s [root@f26-ovmf-vm2 ~]# #----------------------------------------------------