number of processors

[aaron_sf]

why is the max number of processors two? My machine has eight...

[WoodyZ]

why is the max number of processors two? My machine has eight...

Well because at the present time that is all Fusion supports in a Virtual Machine!

[admin]

It's nontrivial to scale to more processors, and there's less gain moving to more than two processors. Also, workloads which really need that much compute power might not be well-suited to virtualization.

[jevel]

Based on my own testing with a Windows guest, I suggest you use one CPU unless you really need the second one. In many cases I see a performance drop when using two cores as compared to one.

I´ve searched a little around the net to find the reason for this, and I found a link describing the reason for this. I just can´t find the link now. I´ll search a little and post it if I can find it.

-KJ

[admin]

I´ve searched a little around the net to find the reason for this, and I found a link describing the reason for this.

You might be thinking of

I also just confirmed it's OK to mention that 2.0b1 can use up to 4 vCPUs, though there's no GUI to set this. The catch is that we present them to the guest as separate sockets, and XP/Vista only use up to two sockets.