Why RHEV guest shows more number of cpu in the dmidecode output irrespective of number of vCPU selected from the manager
Issue
- The
dmidecodeoutput of RHEV virtual machine always shows 16. However the number of vCPU assigned from RHEV Manager is less than 16. - Why
dmidecodeshows more number of CPU than the allocated vCPU for the virtual machine - Application running in the RHEV guest machines are having licensing issue because the
dmidecodeshows 16 cpu however the application only support 2 cpu socket license. - How to reduce the number of cpu shown in the
dmidecodeoutput of RHEV guest machines.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5
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