Incorrect number of CPUs detected

[SGorodskoy]

Hello!

I just downloaded Virtual Box 4.3.14 r95030 and ran into a problem: it allows setting maximum of 2 CPU per virual machine (even that with error "Invalid setting detected").

I have i7-4930K processor (6 cores) with 16GB RAM on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Server x64. MSInfo32/Taskmanager shows 12 CPU cores.

I also tried few older versions of Virtual Box (4.2 and older), but they fail to even start correctly.

Please advice where should i look.

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file ( as an attachment )

[SGorodskoy]

Here it is, if it can make any difference.

[Perryg]

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00:00:01.131088 Guest OS type: 'Windows2008'
00:00:01.229331   IOAPIC            <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)

00:00:01.232008 CPUM: Matched host CPU INTEL 0x6/0x3e/0x4 Intel_Core7_IvyBridge with CPU DB entry 'Intel Core i5-3570' (INTEL 0x6/0x3a/0x9 Intel_Core7_IvyBridge).

00:00:01.846595 Logical host processors: 12 present, 12 max, 12 online, online mask: 0000000000000fff
00:00:01.846649 Physical host cores: 1

00:00:01.846731 Full Name:                              Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz

I assume you are wanting to install the guest as an x86 with SMP. You will need ioapic enabled for this to happen.

But I also see the cpu test does not detect your processor properly, which may be the real issue. You will need to post a ticket at bugtracker and attach this log file and give the explanation of what it should be and what you actually have.

Note: it is not uncommon that the cpu test does not match exactly but in this case I believe it is an issue.

[SGorodskoy]

I tried creating different machine types: x86/x64, linux/windows, xp/2012 etc, so i am sure that the problem is in CPU test.

[ven]

Hello dears,
Virtual guest xp32 \1gb ram, 10gb hd\ on host win7 - 64 \ AMD 6 core \real\, 8 gb ram\. In guest xp32 only 1 core!!! In options i made 2, 3, 4, 6 cores but in guest only 1?!?