diff --git a/templates b/templates
index 9ec884c8..4c175f5b 100755
--- a/templates
+++ b/templates
@@ -4170,16 +4170,18 @@
                         { key => "PART_TABLE_TYPE", value => "mbr"}
                       ],
                     },
-		    {
+                    {
                       backend => "qemu",
                       name => "aarch64",
                       settings => [
                         { key => "BIOS", value => "/usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI-pflash.raw" },
                         { key => "QEMU", value => "aarch64" },
+                        { key => "QEMUCPUS", value => "2"},
                         { key => "QEMUMACHINE", value => "virt"},
                         { key => "QEMUVGA", value => "std" },
                         { key => "QEMURAM", value => 4096 },
                         { key => "QEMUCPU", value => "host" },
+                        { key => "TIMEOUT_SCALE", value => "5" },
                         { key => "SERIALDEV", value => "ttyAMA0" },
                         { key => "UEFI", value => "1"},
                         { key => "PART_TABLE_TYPE", value => "gpt"},