diff --git a/setup/so-setup b/setup/so-setup
index 9d8675d7d..7d1a03722 100755
--- a/setup/so-setup
+++ b/setup/so-setup
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ export PATH=$PATH:../salt/common/tools/sbin
 HOSTNAME=$(cat /etc/hostname)
 TOTAL_MEM=`grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}' | sed -r 's/.{3}$//'`
 NICS=$(ip link | awk -F: '$0 !~ "lo|vir|veth|br|docker|wl|^[^0-9]"{print $2 " \"" "Interface" "\"" " OFF"}')
-CPUCORES=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l)
-LISTCORES=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | awk '{print $3 " \"" "core" "\""}')
+CPUCORES=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | grep -v KVM | wc -l)
+LISTCORES=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | grep -v KVM | awk '{print $3 " \"" "core" "\""}')
 RANDOMUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 16 | head -n 1)
 NODE_ES_PORT="9200"
 SETUPLOG="/root/sosetup.log"