diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
index 9991a0a644..1bf8bafe63 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
@@ -1209,7 +1209,6 @@ qemuMonitorJSONExtractCPUInfo(virJSONValuePtr reply,
 
     for (i = 0 ; i < ncpus ; i++) {
         virJSONValuePtr entry = virJSONValueArrayGet(data, i);
-        int cpu;
         int thread;
         if (!entry) {
             virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
@@ -1217,12 +1216,6 @@ qemuMonitorJSONExtractCPUInfo(virJSONValuePtr reply,
             goto cleanup;
         }
 
-        if (virJSONValueObjectGetNumberInt(entry, "CPU", &cpu) < 0) {
-            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
-                           _("cpu information was missing cpu number"));
-            goto cleanup;
-        }
-
         if (virJSONValueObjectGetNumberInt(entry, "thread_id", &thread) < 0) {
             /* Only qemu-kvm tree includs thread_id, so treat this as
                non-fatal, simply returning no data */
@@ -1230,13 +1223,6 @@ qemuMonitorJSONExtractCPUInfo(virJSONValuePtr reply,
             goto cleanup;
         }
 
-        if (cpu != i) {
-            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
-                           _("unexpected cpu index %d expecting %d"),
-                           i, cpu);
-            goto cleanup;
-        }
-
         threads[i] = thread;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
index 58f632338b..1b6efba95d 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
@@ -510,7 +510,6 @@ int qemuMonitorTextGetCPUInfo(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
 {
     char *qemucpus = NULL;
     char *line;
-    int lastVcpu = -1;
     pid_t *cpupids = NULL;
     size_t ncpupids = 0;
 
@@ -530,16 +529,12 @@ int qemuMonitorTextGetCPUInfo(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
     do {
         char *offset = strchr(line, '#');
         char *end = NULL;
-        int vcpu = 0, tid = 0;
+        int tid = 0;
 
         /* See if we're all done */
         if (offset == NULL)
             break;
 
-        /* Extract VCPU number */
-        if (virStrToLong_i(offset + 1, &end, 10, &vcpu) < 0)
-            goto error;
-
         if (end == NULL || *end != ':')
             goto error;
 
@@ -552,15 +547,11 @@ int qemuMonitorTextGetCPUInfo(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
         if (end == NULL || !c_isspace(*end))
             goto error;
 
-        if (vcpu != (lastVcpu + 1))
-            goto error;
-
         if (VIR_REALLOC_N(cpupids, ncpupids+1) < 0)
             goto error;
 
-        VIR_DEBUG("vcpu=%d pid=%d", vcpu, tid);
+        VIR_DEBUG("pid=%d", tid);
         cpupids[ncpupids++] = tid;
-        lastVcpu = vcpu;
 
         /* Skip to next data line */
         line = strchr(offset, '\r');