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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 01:04:58 +0100
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Andre Przywara wrote:
> So what about: "-smp 4,cores=2,threads=2[,sockets=1]" to inject 4 vCPUs 
> in one package (automatically determined if omitted) with two cores and 
> two threads/core? All parameters except the number of vCPUs would be 
> optional,

Why is the number of vCPUs required at all?

   -smp cores=2,threads=2

The "4" is redundant.

-- Jamie