Re: How to emulate multiprocessor on single i386 processor

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On 5/14/09, seshikanth varma <seshikanthvarma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
> My desktop has single i386 processor and i installed ubuntu with SMP kernel
> on it.
> grep processor /proc/cpuinfo shows
> processor : 0
>
> Can u please tell me how to emulate n - processor (n = 2,3,4 etc) on my
> single processor system?

Well, physically, you can't. But it is doable via
virtualization/emulation by using e.g Qemu, Xen, VirtualBox etc. IIRC,
qemu can emulate up to 255 processors, of course "multiplexing" 255
virtual processors in 1 processor is like choking someone neck :)

regards,

Mulyadi.

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