Xen 'xm vcpu-pin' does not work

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Xen 'xm vcpu-pin' does not work when setting Domain 0 to specific CPUs (note it does work when setting other guest domains to specific CPUs)

# /usr/sbin/xm vcpu-pin 0 0 0
Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
Usage: xm vcpu-pin <Domain> <VCPU> <CPUs>

Set which CPUs a VCPU can use.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.2 and higher

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