From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Przywara Subject: Re: Windows guest CPU socket/core recognition Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:14:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4A8AC56A.8060008@amd.com> References: <4A8A1FE3.10001@gmail.com> <4A8A5214.7060907@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-2"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Zdenek Kaspar , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: dlaor@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:64959 "EHLO IE1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750925AbZHRPQn (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:16:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A8A5214.7060907@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dor Laor wrote: > On 08/18/2009 06:28 AM, Zdenek Kaspar wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I guess I'm not the first one who hit the problem with Microsoft's >> licensing model.. >> >> Nowadays the common single or dual quad-core workstation can't be fully >> used because it's limited by example: license up to 2 physical >> processors. Such VM acts like 4-way or 8-way machine. >> >> Is there any way howto expose CPUs differently for this kind of problem? > > It was discussed on > http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg18490.html but not > yet merged. I have a reworked version almost ready. The AMD part is working fine, but I still have troubles with the Intel part and threads vs. cores (in the guest). I hope I can fix this still this week. Regards, Andre. -- Andre Przywara AMD-OSRC (Dresden) Tel: x29712