what is the argument cpumaps and maplen in api virDomainGetVcpus of libvirt

Question

I am trying to get the information of vcpus running on my machine and for the same I am using libvirt. I am not able to understand how to use the api virDomainGetVcpus which has arguments cpumaps and maplen.

I am using C. Please let me know if you have some insight.

Thanks.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '17 at 13:52

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You need to use virDomainGetInfo and virNodeGetInfo to guest the number of guest CPUs and number of host CPUs. Then you can allocate a map of the right size. This code would do the trick:

 virNodeInfo nodeinfo;
 virDomainInfo dominfo;
 int nhostcpus;

 if (virNodeGetInfo(conn, &nodeinfo) < 0)
      return -1;

 nhostcpus = VIR_NODEINFO_MAXCPUS(nodeinfo);

 if (virDomainGetInfo(dom, &dominfo) != 0)
      return -1;

 cpuinfo = malloc(sizeof(virVcpuInfo)*dominfo.nrVirtCpu);
 cpumaplen = VIR_CPU_MAPLEN(nhostcpu);
 cpumaps = vshMalloc(ctl, dominfo.nrVirtCpu * cpumaplen);

 if ((ncpus = virDomainGetVcpus(dom,
                                cpuinfo, dominfo.nrVirtCpu,
                                cpumaps, cpumaplen)) < 0)
     return -1;

answered Sep 19 '17 at 13:52

DanielB

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Thanks! This helped @DanielB ! – Walt Whitman Sep 19 '17 at 19:25
@DanielB would `VIR_NODEINFO_MAXCPUS(nodeinfo)` ever be different than `nodeinfo.cpus`? – Andy Gaskell Jan 26 '20 at 18:01
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VIR_NODEINFO_MAXCPUS is the maximum CPUs possible given the topology declared. nodeinfo.cpus is the currently online CPUs only, so can be less. – DanielB Jan 28 '20 at 13:51
What is the type of cpumaps? – Alex Leibowitz Sep 04 '22 at 23:25

what is the argument cpumaps and maplen in api virDomainGetVcpus of libvirt

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