[libvirt-users] why increasing vCPUs increasing the CPU sockets for QEMU+KVM

Hi All, I am new here, please warn me If I am not following proper etiquette of this mailing list. I am breaking my head, regarding why libvirt is defining multiple CPU sockets when I increase the vCPU count. As and when I increase the vCPU count in libvirt guest XML, it is increasing the CPU sockets in qemu instance. " -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 " instead " -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1" Does not this lower the performance of the guest as the host and guest architectures gets different in that case. Also please suggest a guest configuration which will take advantage of the host CPU architecture. Your help will be highly appreciated. -- Regards, Girish