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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:46:33 +0100
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> 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.

Paul