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From: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: VCPU cores & sockets
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44:45 +0100
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Ben Guthro wrote:
> Before I get to entrenched in the ACPI code - I thought I'd ping the 
> community to make sure nobody else has investigated this already -
> 
> Can we present cores vs sockets for guest VCPUs?
> Right now, the number of total processors can be specified, but can we 
> specify cores per socket?
> 
> I see this potentially being an hvmloader function, as part of its acpi 
> build code.
> Could this be accomplished more generally?
> 

Ben,

This already exists, It's supported via a CPUID configuration.
Right now there are just some comments in the xmexample.hvm file.

I think it would be better to have an entry in the config file like you 
suggest. I will work on that.

Cheers,

-- 
Jean Guyader