From 71cb0f7cecabd24a427f1a382d650ce364058e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notpranavunsw <118208399+notpranavunsw@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:07:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] return error if user requestes cpus exceeds hardware cpus

Signed-off-by: notpranavunsw <118208399+notpranavunsw@users.noreply.github.com>

ran linter

Signed-off-by: notpranavunsw <118208399+notpranavunsw@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 pkg/limayaml/validate.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/limayaml/validate.go b/pkg/limayaml/validate.go
index d0a76ff1250..96232f0e825 100644
--- a/pkg/limayaml/validate.go
+++ b/pkg/limayaml/validate.go
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ func Validate(y LimaYAML, warn bool) error {
 		return errors.New("field `cpus` must be set")
 	}
 
+	if *y.CPUs > runtime.NumCPU() {
+		return fmt.Errorf("field `cpus` is set to %d, which is greater than the number of CPUs available (%d)", *y.CPUs, runtime.NumCPU())
+	}
+
 	if _, err := units.RAMInBytes(*y.Memory); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("field `memory` has an invalid value: %w", err)
 	}