Hi, I've been using VirtualBox for some time now for running Windows from my
Ubuntu desktop. I've recently been testing running guest Ubuntu server
machines running on a headless Ubuntu server. I'm using the latest version
of VirtualBox from the repository (2.1.4)

My question is around CPU usage. Since my box has a dual core CPU I've been
watching the usage when my windows guest is maxing out CPU usage and have
noticed that it never uses more than 50% of the total CPU (i.e. 100% of only
one CPU)

Since my testing on my headless setup (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64bit host, Ubuntu
8.04 LTS 32bit guest) I've seen the same behaviour with the usage of only
one of the CPUs to the maximum amount there too.

I was originally thinking that if SMP was supported in VB, assigning
multiple processors to a guest might allow it to be used by all the host
CPUs however I think this may be wrong after a bit of reading. Can anyone
point me in the right direction?

-- 
Sincerely,
Joel Duckworth
http://duckworth.me - [email protected]
+61 413 087 191
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