Move Debian Guest (Win Host) from a DualCore to Single Core

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zyx
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Move Debian Guest (Win Host) from a DualCore to Single Core

Post by zyx »

Hi,

can i move a debian guest system from a Dual Core to a Single Core System without any troubles ?

Thanks in advance,
Zyx
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Re: Move Debian Guest (Win Host) from a DualCore to Single Core

Post by sej7278 »

will be fine, as linux uses the smp kernel even for single cpu machines these days.

the guests don't have smp support anyway, so they don't know if your host is single or dual core.
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Re: Move Debian Guest (Win Host) from a DualCore to Single Core

Post by baf »

Also avoid having snapshots. They are hard to make working.
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