[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server] api: vmlist: add plugged cpu count to vmlist table

[Daniel Kral]

On 1/17/25 16:27, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 17.01.25 um 16:10 schrieb Daniel Kral:
>> What do you think about fixing the problem from the other side: I could
>> do a follow up where it's not possible to actively assign a VM more
>> resources than currently available, since it would not boot anyway? I
>> think there's a negligible amount of users who'd want to configure more
>> resources and only later upgrade to the required primary memory or a
>> heavier CPU (wrt to their core count).
> 
> Such a VM might not boot on it's current node, but it could boot on
> another node with more CPU cores. Often not a big issue, but we avoid
> such restrictions as they often create more friction without providing
> that much help – a UI only hint in case of setting more cores than the
> current node supports might be better here.

Thanks for the insight, that makes sense and I haven't thought about it 
in the cluster context, I'll keep that in mind for future changes!

> 
> Maybe best to just ignore the glitch in the output for now, or indeed
> duplicate the calculation, or look into why vmstatus does it that way
> and see if it could be unclamped there (or a new property is warranted).
> 
> btw. you use the "api" prefix for this patch, but it should be "cli",
> as this is not changing the (REST) API in any way.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll change that for a v2! I'll also take 
a second closer look why it has been clamped there and if it can be 
unclamped in a separate patch for v2.