Paul Brook wrote:
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>> currently SMP guests happen to see <n> vCPUs as <n> different sockets.
>> Some guests (Windows comes to mind) have license restrictions and refuse
>> to run on multi-socket machines.
>> So lets introduce a "cores=" parameter to the -cpu option to let the user
>> specify the number of _cores_ the guest should see.
> 
> Sounds like this should be part of the -numa option.
Sound reasonable on the first glance, but would make it rather 
complicated in real life. I suppose multi-core is far more interesting 
to most of the people than multi-node, so I would opt for the easier: 
-smp 2,cores=2 to specify a dual core guest.

Regards,
Andre.

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Andre Przywara
AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany
Tel: +49 351 488-3567-12

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