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7 Replies Last post: Jul 2, 2008 11:22 AM by etung
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vmware fusion on all 8 cores?

Jun 27, 2008 8:30 AM

Click to view lvb's profile Novice lvb 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2008
i've vmware fusion running on my macbook pro on both cores since 6 month or more. now i'm planning to take a mac pro dual quad-core as a workstation for 3d-rendering and 2d-retouch of hires cgi-pictures. i'm wondering if i have to reboot with boot camp all the time or if there is a way, vmware fusion uses all 8 cores? any suggestions?

thanx and best regards,
mrx.
Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jun 27, 2008 9:33 AM
Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru WoodyZ 9,211 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
At the present time VMware Fusion can only use 2 virtual processors in a Virtual Machine.
Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jun 27, 2008 9:39 AM
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Click to view lvb's profile Novice lvb 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2008
any idea when this will be "fixed"? does the v2 beta run on more than two cores?
Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jul 2, 2008 11:22 AM
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Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru WoodyZ 9,211 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
lvb wrote: any idea when this will be "fixed"?


It's not broken. It's that way by design.


does the v2 beta run on more than two cores?


Yes, see etung's reply in this thread.

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Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jun 27, 2008 10:16 AM
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Click to view lvb's profile Novice lvb 3 posts since
Jun 27, 2008
WoodyZ wrote: It's not broken. It's that way by design.

i know. that's why i wrote "fixed" with " around.

WoodyZ wrote: ... So you may want to request it as a new feature.

am i the first one asking for that? really? (fun again. sorry for that.)
as i understand i have to wait for 8-core-support of vmware fusion.
okay.

thanx and have a nice weekend,
mrx.
Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jun 27, 2008 10:27 AM
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Click to view WoodyZ's profile Guru WoodyZ 9,211 posts since
Apr 22, 2004
lvb wrote:
WoodyZ wrote: It's not broken. It's that way by design.

i know. that's why i wrote "fixed" with " around.


I know what you meant! :) I just answered it straight forward to be funny. :)

WoodyZ wrote: ... So you may want to request it as a new feature.

am i the first one asking for that? really? (fun again. sorry for that.)
as i understand i have to wait for 8-core-support of vmware fusion.
okay.

thanx and have a nice weekend,
mrx.


No you're not the first to ask however it's unfortunate that VMware has always been so tight lipped about what their working on and what new features we can expect and when.


Have a good weekend too.

Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jun 27, 2008 10:50 AM
Click to view jfriesne's profile Enthusiast jfriesne 50 posts since
Jun 24, 2007
If your 3D software has a "distributed rendering over the network" feature, perhaps you could run four two-processor VMs and distribute the rendering load to all 8 cores that way.

A horribly ugly and inefficient work around, I know... :^)

-Jeremy
Reply Re: vmware fusion on all 8 cores? Jul 2, 2008 11:00 AM
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Click to view etung's profile Guru etung 10,540 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware
does the v2 beta run on more than two cores?

Yes, up to 4. There's no UI in 2.0b1, but changing numvcpus to 4 (or 3) in the vmx works. The challenge is that we currently present the cores as separate sockets, but XP/Vista are limited to two sockets and so can't take advantage of the extra cores.

However, I would expect this to be only really be useful on an 8-core Mac (3 vCPUs on a quad-core Mac might be OK too).
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