diff --git a/setup/so-setup b/setup/so-setup
index ae0e84e11..a875d8748 100755
--- a/setup/so-setup
+++ b/setup/so-setup
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ 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 $2 " \"" "Interface" "\"" " OFF"}')
-CPUCORES=$(grep -c "processor" /proc/cpuinfo)
+CPUCORES=$(grep -c "processor" /proc/cpuinfo | grep -cv KVM)
 LISTCORES=$(grep "processor" /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{print $3 " \"" "core" "\""}')
 RANDOMUID=$(</dev/urandom tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 16 | head -n 1)
 NODE_ES_PORT="9200"