On 02/23/2012 11:23 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Wed, February 22, 2012 12:25, Todd And Margo Chester >> >> Therefore, in your given case, think six not twelve. >> Common advice is >> to leave >> one core for the host OS/scheduler. Which leaves you with >> 5 physical >> CPUs to >> allocate. >> > > > Thank you. I never planned to allocate to any guest more > cpus that were physically available. What I was checking > was that a single physical cpu with four cores actually > counted as four cpus insofar as kvm itself was concerned. > I have allocated guests their processors on the basis that > 1 core = 1 cpu. But it occurred to me that core might > actually mean something different and so I wanted to > verify my understanding. You are welcome. It took me forever to get a straight answer on this issue (~3 years). I am glad I could share it with you. -T _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
