On Saturday 04 July 2009, Andre Przywara wrote: > Paul Brook wrote: > >> currently SMP guests happen to see <n> vCPUs as <n> different sockets. > >> Some guests (Windows comes to mind) have license restrictions and refuse > >> to run on multi-socket machines. > >> So lets introduce a "cores=" parameter to the -cpu option to let the > >> user specify the number of _cores_ the guest should see. > > > > Sounds like this should be part of the -numa option. > > Sound reasonable on the first glance, but would make it rather > complicated in real life. I suppose multi-core is far more interesting > to most of the people than multi-node, so I would opt for the easier: > -smp 2,cores=2 to specify a dual core guest. I disagree. I think it makes a sense of the topology of nodes, cores and threads to all be specified in the same place. All the options you don't specify should have sensible defaults. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
