Earlier, when the number of vcpus was greater than the topology allowed, libvirt didn't raise an error and continued, resulting in running qemu with parameters making no sense. Even though qemu did not report any error itself, the number of vcpus was set to maximum allowed by the topology. --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 180dd2b..06ddd02 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -8010,6 +8010,13 @@ static virDomainDefPtr virDomainDefParseXML(virCapsPtr caps, if (def->cpu == NULL) goto error; + if (def->maxvcpus > + def->cpu->sockets * def->cpu->cores * def->cpu->threads) { + virDomainReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_DETAIL, "%s", + _("Maximum CPUs greater than topology limit")); + goto error; + } + if (def->cpu->cells_cpus > def->maxvcpus) { virDomainReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("Number of CPUs in <numa> exceeds the" -- 1.7.3.4