I'm assuming this is not possible and I understand performance would likely take a huge hit if it was... but if I assign multiple cores to a Guest OS, is it possible to get the Guest OS to see that as HT enabled hardware?
i.e. I assign 1 Logical CPU with 4 Cores, can I get the Guest OS to see 8 CPU's as if it was installed on an i7 with HT enabled?
.... basically getting VMWorkstation to emulate HT to the Guest OS.
From what I can read... almost everything is tied to performance specific tasks and almost everything regarding HT is paired to the Host OS, not the Guest.
We are wanting to test specific hyperthreading code calls and evaluate performance within a ball park and actually get the code to function correctly before moving on to real environment. So we could test it against a dual socket 4 core (which with HT would show 16 cores to the OS).
From my understanding, VMWare utilizes HT on the back end, but I'm not finding anything to pass it along OR emulate it to the Guest OS. Everything else with the cores is basically to satisfy licensing requirements that are based on socket count.
Anyway, thought I would ask.
