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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.

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...