From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> maxcpus, which specifies the maximum number of hotpluggable CPUs, should not exceed KVM's vcpu limit. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> [Reword message. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kvm-all.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c index ef52a0f..a2d4978 100644 --- a/kvm-all.c +++ b/kvm-all.c @@ -1400,6 +1400,13 @@ int kvm_init(void) goto err; } + if (max_cpus > max_vcpus) { + ret = -EINVAL; + fprintf(stderr, "Number of hotpluggable cpus requested (%d) exceeds max cpus " + "supported by KVM (%d)\n", max_cpus, max_vcpus); + goto err; + } + s->vmfd = kvm_ioctl(s, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0); if (s->vmfd < 0) { #ifdef TARGET_S390X -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html