Re: [PATCH manager 1/1] ui: processor edit: allow setting 8 sockets

[Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>]

On 7/10/26 9:42 AM, Maximiliano Sandoval wrote:
> Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com> writes:
> 
>> if the backend does not have an upper limit, shouldn't we use the same
>> behavior in the frontend?
> 
> We have a hardcoded limit of $MAX_NUMA = 8 in qemu-server's Memory.pm as
> mentioned by Alexandre in a reply to v1. I opted to be on the safer side
> without redoing the entire numa handling.
> 
> At the moment there are systems with 8 sockets and at least one customer
> asked for this in enterprise support.
> 

but this is only tangentially related to the socket amount?

i can boot a vm with e.g. 16 sockets + numa 1 boot perfectly fine?

>> AFAICS two issues arise by having a lower value here than the backend:
>> * we have to raise this (probably) again in the future
>> * a config with a higher value cannot be edited in the gui
>>    (because it get's invalid)
>>
>> So i'd prefer just to remove the maxValue here completely.
>>
>> If there is any detrimental effect when having to much sockets
>> configured, we could add a warning e.g. when the sockets
>> is > 8.
>