Re: [Qemu-devel] CPU assignment possiblities?

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Erik Rull <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to assign multiple host cores to a VM that are then exposed there as
> only one virtual processor core. I want to maximize there the available
> computation power and the guest OS cannot handle SMP.
>
> And: How can I enable qemu to run on multiple host cores? I have a i7
> HT enabled linux system on another server and don't see that the process is
> running on multiple cores but only on one.

Qemu does not have the ability to aggregate multiple host processors
into a single "super" processor for the guest.  When multiple
processors are given to a guest, the guest must support SMP to take
advantage of them.  Thanks,

Alex