Question about physical CPUS assign to a VM linux server

[Levon]

I hope this is the right place for this question. I am very new to Oracle VM and need an answer.
We have a Colo hosting a linux server for us using Oracle VM and our host is Oracle Linux 6.9
We have 2 Oracle Lic. for this host and they assured us that they have only hard-partitioned 4 physical cpu's to our server.
Doing a top on the server shows 8 processors; so we questioned them and they sent us this config file.

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vm.cfg - a0103o3odbsp101 
usbdevice = tablet 
keymap = en-us 
disk = [file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb00000300006783d9cb88ef4827/VirtualDisks/0004fb0000120000b26dde03fe3ccad0.img,xvda,w,file:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb00000300006783d9cb88ef4827/VirtualDisks/0004fb00001200001e5839c2f424f1f5.img,xvdb,w] 
vcpus = 8 
on_poweroff = destroy 
OVM_os_type = Oracle Linux 6 
cpu_weight = 27500 
cpus = 36-43 
cpu_cap = 0 
OVM_description = 
OVM_simple_name = a0103o3odbsp101 
name = 0004fb00000600001a355bd89876b519 
guest_os_type = linux 
OVM_high_availability = false 
vif = [mac=00:21:f6:51:7c:53,bridge=10d7c5a224,mac=00:21:f6:37:93:f5,bridge=1063630774] 
OVM_domain_type = xen_hvm_pv 
boot = c 
builder = hvm 
vnc = 1 
memory = 98304 
vncunused = 1 
on_crash = restart 
on_reboot = restart 
maxvcpus = 8 
uuid = 0004fb00-0006-0000-1a35-5bd89876b519 
serial = pty 
OVM_cpu_compat_group = 
vnclisten = 127.0.0.1 

I'm I reading this wrong as it show 8 cpu's assigned to me.
cpus = 36-43
Is there something I am missing and not understanding? I don't want to have to pay the penalty for too many cpu's for our backup Oracle DB server.

Thanks

[socratis]

I believe you're looking for the Oracle VM server forums, not the VirtualBox ones...