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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2
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On Tuesday 31 May 2011 20:55:08 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>=20
wrote:
> > On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote:
> >> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there
> >> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS
> >> more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on
> >> vbox.
> >=20
> > My understanding is it is a general rule that you never give any VM more
> > than one processor, regardless of which vm hypervisor you are running...
>=20
> My platform is a Gentoo i7-980 Extreme processor so I have 12 CPUs (6
> cores * 2 for hyperthreading)
>=20
> In Virtualbox I'm running both Gentoo and Win 7 VMs, each allocated 4
> processors. In Win 7 I have one app that uses everything it can find
> so when it's running all 4 processors are 100% utilized. In Linux I
> see the CPU usage at 33%. Win 7 is sluggish when this app is running
> as it hogs from the system
>=20
> In VMWare Player I'm running Win XP VMs with 2 processors. None of my
> apps in XP use more than 1 processor. XP itself is quite responsive
> even when these apps are using 1 of the 2 processors dedicated the the
> VM.
>=20
> I seldom run more than 1 app in any Windows VM as I don't trust
> Windows. I've not had any problems with any of these VMs that I'd
> associate with using multiple cores.
>=20
> And yes, I do own these Windows licenses. VMs keep that money useful
> until some day some Linux apps come along that do what these do for me
> in Windows.

A bit OT I guess, but what apps are you using that do not have a Linux=20
alternative Mark?  Answer off list if you wish so we do not hijack the thre=
ad.

=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick

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