** Reply to message from vbox-users <[email protected]> on Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:07:35 +0000
> > From: Frank Mehnert [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:22 AM > > > > > > And do only > > enable multiple processors in the guest if this is really necessary > > (e.g. your guest does CPU-intensive tasks). A normal webserver is often > > happy with a single core. > > Yes, but if your guest normally only wants one CPU, and sometimes wants more > than one, why should you limit it? > > > > Enabling multiprocessor support in the guest > > induces more overhead for synchronization. > > True, but if you don't enable it, and it has more than one process competing > for a single core, then you incur more overhead by context switching. Maybe I'm missing something, but with a Mac host at least, using more than 1 cpu for Win XP or OS/2 clients results in the USB access not working. I would love to use both CPUs that I have, but need the USB access or can use only 1. Cliff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
