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I would like to create a Xen VM with 32 possible VCPUs but have the guest OS only enable 2 of them on boot. Are there some kernel parameters I can pass in to enable this? I've played around with various combinations of additional_cpus, disabled_cpus, and possible_cpus and I can't seem to find anything that works.

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I'm pretty new to Xen too, but seems like there are two Xen variables that you can set. Doing a xe vm-param-list uuid=<uuid> yields the following two variables:

VCPUs-max ( RW): 1
VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1

Seems like you would want to set the first one to 32 and the second one to 2 for your specific guest OS.

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  • I should add that I'm using the open source version of Xen, not the one from Citrix, so this doesn't help.
    – Michael Mior
    Feb 24, 2010 at 16:17
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Perhaps I need to start spending more time working on my own before asking questions. I solved this issue by setting the vcpu_avail mask in the Xen config file to 3.

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