[ovirt-users] Re: [Cannot edit VM. Maximum number of sockets exceeded.]

> On 9 Jan 2019, at 11:12, Lucie Leistnerova <lleistne(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi Matthias, > > On 1/9/19 10:13 AM, Matthias Leopold wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when a user is managing a "higher number" (couldn't find the exact number yet, roughly >10) of VMs in VM Portal and wants to edit a VM he gets a "[Cannot edit VM. Maximum number of sockets exceeded.]" error message in the browser, which I also see in engine.log. I couldn't find the reason for this. I'm using squid as a SPICE Proxy at cluster level. oVirt version is 4.2.7, can anybody help me? >> > What exactly are you editing by the VM? The error sounds that CPUs number is higher than engine configuration value allows > > # engine-config -g MaxNumOfVmSockets > MaxNumOfVmSockets: 16 version: 3.6 > MaxNumOfVmSockets: 16 version: 4.0 > MaxNumOfVmSockets: 16 version: 4.1 > MaxNumOfVmSockets: 16 version: 4.2 I don’t think we’re changing topology in VM Portal and so you’re stuck with the restriction in the original template or whatever was set in webadmin. I guess we’re chagning just the sockets? But then..e.g. if the VM has 4cores/socket you could only set 4, 8, 16, up to 64, and there’ sno indication nor validation in the UI, is there? Thanks, michal