Eelco van Beek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much about virtualization and an OS's use of multiple
> processor systems but i was wondering if it's possible (and maybe even
> faster) to have a guest os's code running on a secondairy processor in a
> system? So if you have a 2 processor system, would i be possible to
> dedicate one of the processors to the freemware guest os execution?
A freemware VM runs as a normal Linux process, which is scheduled
across processors on a SMP machine as usual by the Linux scheduler.
Linux deliberately does not allow processes to decide themselves
on which processor they want to run: the reason for this is that
the optimal processor allocation strategy depends on what *else*
is running at the same time, and any single application simply
doesn't *have* that information.
Bye,
Ulrich
