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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Hyperthreading in the VM host
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Julian Chesterfield <julian@thechesterfields.org> writes:

> My understanding is that Qemu does not support hyperthreading in the host 
> OS. I'm wondering what the arguments are for and against such support. Is it 
> in fact architecturally feasible and could there potentially be any performance 
> gain?

Why do you think qemu does not support a hyperthreaded host?  I
have no reason to believe that it does not, and I am curious why
you think otherwise.
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Ben Pfaff 
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