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Subject: Re: couple of issues with bhyve windows 10 pro guest on FreeBSD 11.0
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...
>   bhyve can be configured to expose vCPUs as logical processors within a 
> socket using tunables that should be set before vmm.ko is loaded (or 
> after unload/before reload).
> 
>   hw.vmm.topology.cores_per_package   (defaults to 1)
>   hw.vmm.topology.threads_per_core    (   "   "     )
> 
>   Note that these settings are global and will be used by all VMs.

To be more compatible with many other virtualization products how
hard would it be to change these to per VM instance tunables?


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org