From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Mon Dec 5 19:01:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB23C67922 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 19:01:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterg@ptree32.com.au) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D95C1234 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 19:01:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterg@ptree32.com.au) Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.150]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA4B8212665A for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:01:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E191B28095F for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:01:29 +1000 (AEST) X-Amavis-Modified: Mail body modified (using disclaimer) - iredmail.onthenet.com.au Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mZUUnr2ZWSfY for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:01:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Peters-MacBook-Pro-2.local (96-82-80-65-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [96.82.80.65]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 38AA328095D; Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:01:27 +1000 (AEST) Subject: Re: Windows Desktop OS only show one CPU on bhyve even though 2-4 are assigned To: Allan Jude , freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org References: <8a8684d9-1a98-380d-6c11-26590b0a9eaf@freebsd.org> From: Peter Grehan Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:01:42 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8a8684d9-1a98-380d-6c11-26590b0a9eaf@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=YJDv8VOx c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=A6CF0fG5TOl4vs6YHvqXgw==:117 a=mwgbnDbW7alINpy3vhoKyg==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=n5n_aSjo0skA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=WAkjZaPtGMlADHqEU0sA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=IjZwj45LgO3ly-622nXo:22 wl=host:3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:01:55 -0000 > The short answer is that Windows Desktop OS only supports a single CPU > socket, optionally with many cores. The default in bhyve is to expose > each virtual CPU as a separate socket. There are a set of sysctls that > let you control this, so you can instead expose the 4 cpus as cores of a > single socket, and it will then work with Windows 8.1/10, but I don't > recall what they are off the top of my head, but they are in the archive > which you can browse here: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/ The post in question is http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?b26b6124-7ac6-0408-3016-f5678ad144d0 later, Peter.