diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index c4388330324d..efda1a20ed7b 100644
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -4239,10 +4239,10 @@ private void setCpuTopology(CpuModeDef cmd, int vcpus, Map<String, String> detai
                 numCoresPerSocket = 6;
             } else if (vcpus % 4 == 0) {
                 numCoresPerSocket = 4;
-            } else {
-                numCoresPerSocket = 1;
             }
         }
-        cmd.setTopology(numCoresPerSocket, vcpus / numCoresPerSocket);
+        if (numCoresPerSocket > 0) {
+            cmd.setTopology(numCoresPerSocket, vcpus / numCoresPerSocket);
+        }
     }
 }