MargoAndTodd wrote: > My big concern here is that if I tell it 4 cores on my customer's > x5650 (6 hardware cores), I will actually get 4 hyperthreaded cores > for a total of 2 actual cores. It's how it works, think of kvm as an application. If you tell that it should use 4 core it's like if you tell it to use 4 processes or threads. The host operating system will decide which processor core or thread to use ... Cheers, G -- Guillaume Taglang Director IT LIFE Biosystems phone: +49 6221 438 5367 mobile: +49 176 19 18 17 99 fax: +49 6221 4859521 email: guillaume.taglang at lifebiosystems.com web: http://lifebiosystems.com mail: Poststrasse 34 - 69115 Heidelberg - Germany ------------------------------------------------------ LIFE Biosystems GmbH Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stephan Brock Dr. Hartmut Voss Dr. Friedrich von Bohlen und Halbach Sitz der Gesellschaft: Heidelberg Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Mannheim - HRB 338037 ------------------------------------------------------