[Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Zhang
Dear all: I have been trying this for whole afternoon and whole night. I have installed windows 7 as guest in kvm using virt-manager which use qemu. And after I alloc it 6 vcpus, I noticed win7 only see 2 cpus in task manager. But in device manager, it shows 6 cpus. After google a lot, looks

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Sai Prajeeth
Try setting sockets=6,cores=1? I had this issue when running Solaris as guest. For some reason Solaris never detected any of the cores. It could only detect the sockets. On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Scott Zhang wrote: > Dear all: >I have been trying this for whole afternoon and whole

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Zhang
:Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores? 收件人:"Scott Zhang" 抄送:"qemu-discuss" Try setting sockets=6,cores=1? I had this issue when running Solaris as guest. For some reason Solaris never detected any of the cores. It co

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 7/23/2014 6:22 PM, Sai Prajeeth wrote: Try setting sockets=6,cores=1? I had this issue when running Solaris as guest. For some reason Solaris never detected any of the cores. It could only detect the sockets. Unlikely to work. Windows 7 (unlike the more expensive server licenses for the sa

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Scott Zhang
that is interesting. i use my opensuse 13.1 with i7 4cores.cpu and run win7 as guest. win7 show 4 cpus correctly. guess the problem with fedora kvm or the xeon cpu. will try later to confirm On Jul 24, 2014 12:35 AM, "Jakob Bohm" wrote: > On 7/23/2014 6:22 PM, Sai Prajeeth wrote: > >> Try setting

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Tony Su
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/970c999c-8ffc-4611-968c-7d0ceffbedd4/max-number-of-cpu-cores-that-windows-7-64-bit-will-recognize?forum=w7itprohardware Depending on your version of Windows 7, your license supports either one or two CPU and any number of cores. Tony On

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-23 Thread Tony Su
Aside from verifying/supporting the previous posts which state that a Desktop OS like Win7 only supports 2 CPUs, I wonder why the effort to even deploy on multiple CPU. Today's OS (all I know of) fully take advantage of all physical CPUs no matter how many (or few) virtual CPUs are configured. Th

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-24 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 7/24/2014 4:24 AM, Tony Su wrote: Aside from verifying/supporting the previous posts which state that a Desktop OS like Win7 only supports 2 CPUs, I wonder why the effort to even deploy on multiple CPU. Today's OS (all I know of) fully take advantage of all physical CPUs no matter how many

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Any one have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores?

2014-07-24 Thread Scott Zhang
have successfully make window 7 guest in kvm use more than 2 cpus/cores? 收件人:"qemu-discuss" 抄送: On 7/24/2014 4:24 AM, Tony Su wrote: >Aside from verifying/supporting the previous posts which state that a > Desktop OS like Win7 only supports 2 CPUs, I wonder why the effort to