RHV: Virtual Machine fails to start with "max_cpus is too large. APIC ID of last CPU is ..."

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Issue

  • Virtual Machine (qemu-kvm) fails to start with:
max_cpus is too large. APIC ID of last CPU is xxx

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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