Commit 7b79ee2f78 makes assumptions about die_id parsing in the sysfs that aren't true for Power hosts. In both Power8 and Power9 the die_id is set to -1: $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/die_id -1 This breaks the parsing being done in virHostCPUGetDie(), which is using an uInt instead, stopping the VM to start: virFileReadValueUint:4128 : internal error: Invalid unsigned integer value '-1' in file '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/die_id' This isn't necessarily a PowerPC only behavior. Linux kernel commit 0e344d8c70 added in the former Documentation/cputopology.txt, now Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst, that: --- To be consistent on all architectures, include/linux/topology.h provides default definitions for any of the above macros that are not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h: 1) topology_physical_package_id: -1 2) topology_die_id: -1 (...) --- This means that it might be expected that an architecture that does not implement the die_id element will mark it as -1 in sysfs. It is not required to change die_id implementation from uInt to Int because of that. Instead, let's change the parsing of the die_id in virHostCPUGetDie() to read an integer value and, in case it's -1, default it to zero like in case of file not found. This is enough to solve the issue Power hosts are experiencing. Fixes: 7b79ee2f78bbf2af76df2f6466919e19ae05aeeb Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/util/virhostcpu.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virhostcpu.c b/src/util/virhostcpu.c index c1b39e772a..8d7841517e 100644 --- a/src/util/virhostcpu.c +++ b/src/util/virhostcpu.c @@ -220,15 +220,20 @@ virHostCPUGetSocket(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int *socket) int virHostCPUGetDie(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int *die) { - int ret = virFileReadValueUint(die, - "%s/cpu/cpu%u/topology/die_id", - SYSFS_SYSTEM_PATH, cpu); + int die_id; + int ret = virFileReadValueInt(&die_id, + "%s/cpu/cpu%u/topology/die_id", + SYSFS_SYSTEM_PATH, cpu); - /* If the file is not there, it's 0 */ - if (ret == -2) + /* If the file is not there, it's 0. + * PowerPC hosts can report die_id = -1, which for our + * case here it's the same as absent file. */ + if (ret == -2 || die_id < 0) *die = 0; else if (ret < 0) return -1; + else + *die = die_id; return 0; } -- 2.24.1