On Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 20:27:00, Erik Brakkee wrote: > Is there a way in which I can pass the 8 virtual CPUs to the vista image > in such a way that they appear as one CPU with 8 cores? >From the man page: -smp n[,cores=cores][,threads=threads][,sockets=sockets][,maxcpus=maxcpus] Simulate an SMP system with n CPUs. On the PC target, up to 255 CPUs are supported. On Sparc32 target, Linux limits the number of usable CPUs to 4. For the PC target, the number of cores per socket, the number of threads per cores and the total number of sockets can be specified. Missing values will be computed. If any on the three values is given, the total number of CPUs n can be omitted. maxcpus specifies the maximum number of hotpluggable CPUs. Basically, you want something like -smp 8,cores=8 -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success. -- Bartz's Law of Hokey Horsepuckery -- 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