The host OS "sees" 4 CPUs, even though there are only 2 physical CPUs, and 2 from HT.
The problem with only allocating 1 CPU to the virtual machine, is that the host never lets the VM get more than 25% of the CPU resources - that is the maximum load, with the VM's CPU at 100%.
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- 16. Apr 2013, 15:00
- Forum: Using VirtualBox
- Topic: How to allocate more than 1 CPU
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- 16. Apr 2013, 04:41
- Forum: Using VirtualBox
- Topic: How to allocate more than 1 CPU
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How to allocate more than 1 CPU
hi all. I'm using VBox 4.1.12 on a low power Windows machine - 4GB RAM, with a 2core+HT atom cpu. No hardware virtualization is supported. Although this is a slow cpu, it can run very light/basic VMs fairly smoothly. The problem is that it's very easy for the VM to max out the available CPU resource...