On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:28:51PM -0400, Steven wrote: > Hi, > I started a kvm VM by adding -smp 2 option. From inside the guest, I > can see that /proc/cpuinfo outputs 2 cores. > However, in the host, I only observe one qemu-kvm process for that VM. > Does that mean this VM is actually running on one core? > If so, how to make a VM to run on 2 or more cores? Thanks.
Each VCPU in KVM corresponds to a separate thread in the process. The 'ps' command only ever shows the thread leader by default - so you don't see those VCPU threads in the process list. eg ps -eLf to see all threads Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
