Hi,
I am running a duo core on Centos 5 on a server
I wish to install Virtualbox
- Is there a way to dedicate Virtualbox to ONE Core only ?
- If so, how can I do that ?
Thanks
On Multi core processors ....
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This isn't really a VBox question, but more a straight Linux one. Google Linux processor affinity for relevant articles.
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VB will only use one core per VM. There are some tools for Linux to set the affinity to a certain core, but it's best to leave it as is. The load will be divided over the two cores, switching from core to core or dividing the load evenly.
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There are certain circumstances when use of processor affinity may be justified (for example, you have a mix of VMs which are running CPU bound applications but you want to ensure that they only take up a total of 100% of one CPU), but in general I agree with you. The average user would do well to leave this one tuning parameter alone.
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