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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:24:41 +1100 (EST)
From:      Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
To:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtualbox and CPU counting
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P.S. More precisly, I expected VirtualBOx to see 8 or 32 CPUs.

In the past it was virtual CPU= "real" thread number, if I remember 
correctly.

How many you give to a VM is a different matter.

Regards
Peter

On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Peter Ross wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a question:
>
> I have a server with
>
> - 2 Xeon E5-2609,
> - 4 cores each
> - 4 threads per core
>
> On OS level, Linux and FreeBSD see 8 processors.
>
> VirtualBox offers 16 CPUs as the maximal number for a VM.
>
> I expected 32. How does this work?
>
> Regards
> Peter
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