Something about cpu and memory hot plug on kvm

Something about cpu and memory hot plug on kvm

I assume you have basic knowledge about libvirt. If not refer to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html to learn some basic concept.

cpu hot plug

First of all, we need to define a vm. It’s OK to use IaaS or define it by yourself.

You can easily get your vm domain-id by this command

virsh list --all

Then execute

virsh edit <domain-id>

Libvirt will open the domain xml file of the vm you defined before. And find cpu tag, you might got something like this

<vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu>
<cpu>
  <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
</cpu>

At this point we have to ways to do hot plug.

Solution : setvcpu

Using vpus related virsh command to help with cpu hot plug.

step 1 : shutdown vm

virsh destroy <domain-id>

step 2 : edit the domain xml to ensure hotplug on it

virsh edit <vm name>

in this step, we need to change the vcpu config from

<vcpu placement='static'>1</<