diff --git a/board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt b/board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt
index 7ca4e891ea..c7a7607da7 100644
--- a/board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt
+++ b/board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 Run the emulation with:
 
-  qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -m 256 -kernel output/images/zImage -dtb output/images/vexpress-v2p-ca9.dtb -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=sd,format=raw -append "console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0" -serial stdio -net nic,model=lan9118 -net user
+  qemu-system-arm -M vexpress-a9 -smp 1 -m 256 -kernel output/images/zImage -dtb output/images/vexpress-v2p-ca9.dtb -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=sd,format=raw -append "console=ttyAMA0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0" -serial stdio -net nic,model=lan9118 -net user
 
 The login prompt will appear in the terminal that started Qemu. The
 graphical window is the framebuffer.
 
+If you want to emulate more cores change "-smp 1" to "-smp 2" for
+dual-core or even "smp -4" for a quad-core configuration.
+
 Tested with QEMU 2.3.0