From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMkyM-0001lK-Sl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:46:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMkyH-0001ep-CD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:46:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55019 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMkyH-0001ef-3m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:46:41 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:62742) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMkyG-00070n-PH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:46:40 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMkyF-0001kX-6T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:46:39 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:46:33 +0100 References: <1246632116-31366-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com> In-Reply-To: <1246632116-31366-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907031646.36268.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Andre Przywara , avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org > currently SMP guests happen to see vCPUs as 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