diff --git a/hypervisor/arch/x86/guest/vm.c b/hypervisor/arch/x86/guest/vm.c
index 034d71d79..0604f2da7 100644
--- a/hypervisor/arch/x86/guest/vm.c
+++ b/hypervisor/arch/x86/guest/vm.c
@@ -703,10 +703,6 @@ void prepare_vm(uint16_t vm_id, struct acrn_vm_config *vm_config)
 	err = create_vm(vm_id, vm_config, &vm);
 
 	if (err == 0) {
-		if (is_prelaunched_vm(vm)) {
-			(void)mptable_build(vm);
-		}
-
 		for (i = 0U; i < get_pcpu_nums(); i++) {
 			if (bitmap_test(i, &vm_config->pcpu_bitmap)) {
 				err = prepare_vcpu(vm, i);
@@ -715,10 +711,13 @@ void prepare_vm(uint16_t vm_id, struct acrn_vm_config *vm_config)
 				}
 			}
 		}
-
 	}
 
 	if (err == 0) {
+		if (is_prelaunched_vm(vm)) {
+			(void)mptable_build(vm);
+		}
+
 		(void )vm_sw_loader(vm);
 
 		/* start vm BSP automatically */
diff --git a/hypervisor/dm/vmptable.c b/hypervisor/dm/vmptable.c
index 8f628495b..888876f60 100644
--- a/hypervisor/dm/vmptable.c
+++ b/hypervisor/dm/vmptable.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ int32_t mptable_build(struct acrn_vm *vm)
 
 	vm_config = get_vm_config(vm->vm_id);
 	mptable = &vm_mptables[vm->vm_id];
-	vcpu_num = vm_config->cpu_num;
+	vcpu_num = vm->hw.created_vcpus;
 	pcpu_bitmap = vm_config->pcpu_bitmap;
 	(void *)memcpy_s((void *)mptable, sizeof(struct mptable_info),
 		(const void *)&mptable_template, sizeof(struct mptable_info));
diff --git a/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/vm_config.h b/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/vm_config.h
index bf79a911d..24c7b877c 100644
--- a/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/vm_config.h
+++ b/hypervisor/include/arch/x86/vm_config.h
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ struct acrn_vm_config {
 	char name[MAX_VM_OS_NAME_LEN];			/* VM name identifier, useful for debug. */
 	const uint8_t uuid[16];				/* UUID of the VM */
 	uint64_t pcpu_bitmap;				/* from pcpu bitmap, we could know VM core number */
-	uint16_t cpu_num;				/* Number of vCPUs for the VM */
 	uint64_t guest_flags;				/* VM flags that we want to configure for guest
 							 * Now we have two flags:
 							 *	GUEST_FLAG_SECURE_WORLD_ENABLED
diff --git a/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.c b/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.c
index 0d4edfea5..beb768c12 100644
--- a/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.c
+++ b/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ struct acrn_vm_config vm_configs[CONFIG_MAX_VM_NUM] = {
 			 0x81U, 0x09U, 0xf2U, 0x01U, 0xebU, 0xd6U, 0x1aU, 0x5eU},
 			/* 26c5e0d8-8f8a-47d8-8109-f201ebd61a5e */
 		.pcpu_bitmap = VM0_CONFIG_PCPU_BITMAP,
-		.cpu_num = VM0_CONFIG_NUM_CPUS,
 		.clos = 0U,
 		.memory = {
 			.start_hpa = VM0_CONFIG_MEM_START_HPA,
@@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ struct acrn_vm_config vm_configs[CONFIG_MAX_VM_NUM] = {
 			 0xbcU, 0x58U, 0x76U, 0x05U, 0x83U, 0x7fU, 0x93U, 0x5eU},
 			/* dd87ce08-66f9-473d-bc58-7605837f935e */
 		.pcpu_bitmap = VM1_CONFIG_PCPU_BITMAP,
-		.cpu_num = VM1_CONFIG_NUM_CPUS,
 		.guest_flags = (GUEST_FLAG_RT | GUEST_FLAG_LAPIC_PASSTHROUGH),
 		.clos = 0U,
 		.memory = {
diff --git a/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.h b/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.h
index 4336b99ee..c0f8d90c4 100644
--- a/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.h
+++ b/hypervisor/scenarios/logical_partition/vm_configurations.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
  */
 
 #define VM0_CONFIG_PCPU_BITMAP			(PLUG_CPU(0) | PLUG_CPU(2))
-#define VM0_CONFIG_NUM_CPUS			2U
 #define VM0_CONFIG_MEM_START_HPA		0x100000000UL
 #define VM0_CONFIG_MEM_SIZE			0x20000000UL
 #define VM0_CONFIG_OS_BOOTARG_ROOT		ROOTFS_0
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@
 #define VM0_CONFIG_OS_BOOTARG_CONSOLE		"console=ttyS0 "
 
 #define VM1_CONFIG_PCPU_BITMAP			(PLUG_CPU(1) | PLUG_CPU(3))
-#define VM1_CONFIG_NUM_CPUS			2U
 #define VM1_CONFIG_MEM_START_HPA		0x120000000UL
 #define VM1_CONFIG_MEM_SIZE			0x20000000UL
 #define VM1_CONFIG_OS_BOOTARG_ROOT		ROOTFS_0