diff --git a/qemu-vm b/qemu-vm
index f93549e..c049921 100755
--- a/qemu-vm
+++ b/qemu-vm
@@ -104,10 +104,13 @@ while [[ "$qemu_pid" = '' ]]; do
     qemu_pid="$(pidof qemu-system-$(uname -m) || true)"
     sleep .1
 done
-$SUDO qemu-affinity \
-    -k $(qemu-vm-cpus decompress_seq "$(qemu-vm-cpus compute_vm $NUM_PROCESSORS)") \
-    -i *:$(qemu-vm-cpus compute_vm $NUM_PROCESSORS) \
-    -- $qemu_pid
+while :; do
+    sleep .1
+    $SUDO qemu-affinity \
+        -k $(qemu-vm-cpus decompress_seq "$(qemu-vm-cpus compute_vm $NUM_PROCESSORS)") \
+        -i *:$(qemu-vm-cpus compute_vm $NUM_PROCESSORS) \
+        -- $qemu_pid && break
+done
 
 echo 'Startup complete'
 tail --pid="$qemu_pid" -f /dev/null