[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#495950: Bug#495950: libvirt assumes kvm can't do SMP

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Thu Aug 21 22:32:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:51:00PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:58:22PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> >   libvirt currently assumes that KVM can't do SMP yet, so it sets the maximum
> >   number of cpus to 1. Which means that you can't change the number of cpu's
> >   using virsh setvcpu to more then 1...
> Even in 0.4.0 SMP worked with KVM. Increase the number of CPUs in the
> XML and it'll work. Please describe what you tried to do.

Like i said in my mail, using virtsh setvcpu doesn't accept a number of cpu's
more then 1. Changing the XML or running kvm by hand works fine ofcourse.

To summarize running:
  virtsh setvcpu 2
returns an error (i can't acces the machine, so can't give you the exact error)

  Sjoerd
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