[CentOS-virt] Antwort: Re: How many virtual guest 'cpus' can a core duo 'quad' core support

Wed Feb 22 07:46:49 UTC 2012
Andreas Reschke <Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com>

centos-virt-bounces at centos.org schrieb am 22.02.2012 08:14:14:

> Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com> 
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> Re: [CentOS-virt] How many virtual guest 'cpus' can a core duo 
> 'quad' core support
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:59 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> 
wrote:
> > CentOS-6.2
> >
> > What is the maximum number of cpus can I configure for a
> > single vm guest running on a host with this hardware?
> >
> > # lscpu
> > Architecture:          x86_64
> > CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
> > Byte Order:            Little Endian
> > CPU(s):                4
> > On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
> > Thread(s) per core:    1
> > Core(s) per socket:    4
> > CPU socket(s):         1
> > NUMA node(s):          1
> > Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
> > CPU family:            6
> > Model:                 23
> > Stepping:              10
> > CPU MHz:               1998.000
> > BogoMIPS:              5331.76
> > Virtualization:        VT-x
> > L1d cache:             32K
> > L1i cache:             32K
> > L2 cache:              2048K
> > NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3
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> > I ask this because it occurs to me that I may have missed
> > something fundamental respecting the use of the initialism
> > CPU vice the term Cores.
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> The maximum you can assign to a single VM is the amount of CPUs
> visible to the KVM host.  So a quad core is shows as 4 CPUs to the OS,
> so you could assign 4 vCPUs to a guest.  To see how much is available
> and seen by KVM run # virsh nodeinfo.
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Hello,

I think thats not correct. I my case I have a HP N36L Server with one 
Dualcore Prozessor and 4 guest running. You can overbook the prozessor.
Maybe the performance goes down.
 
 
Gruß 
Andreas Reschke
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