[Openstack] [OpenStack] Guest OS shows just one CPU core instead of two

2013-03-05 Thread Balamurugan V G
Hi, I am running Folsom 2.2 with a KVM compute node. When I launch a windows instance with flavor that has 2 VCPUs and 2Gb RAM, the guest seems the RAM fine but not the 2 CPUs. It reports only one Virtual processor. Whne I look at the command line options with which KVM has launched the instance,

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] Guest OS shows just one CPU core instead of two

2013-03-05 Thread Sylvain Bauza
Could you please tell us what is your libvirt_cpu_model ? Please check both nova.conf and instance's libvirt.xml. -Sylvain Le 05/03/2013 11:30, Balamurugan V G a écrit : Hi, I am running Folsom 2.2 with a KVM compute node. When I launch a windows instance with flavor that has 2 VCPUs and 2Gb

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] Guest OS shows just one CPU core instead of two

2013-03-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:00:06PM +0530, Balamurugan V G wrote: Hi, I am running Folsom 2.2 with a KVM compute node. When I launch a windows instance with flavor that has 2 VCPUs and 2Gb RAM, the guest seems the RAM fine but not the 2 CPUs. It reports only one Virtual processor. Whne I look

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] Guest OS shows just one CPU core instead of two

2013-03-05 Thread Balamurugan V G
I had Windows 8 64bit which shows just 1 Virtual Core and 1 Socket in the task manager-Performance-CPU tab. I then tried Windows Server 2012 which shows 2 sockets and 2 Virtual Cores for the same flavor. So it must be some compatibility issue with KVM and certain versions of Windows. Thanks for

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] Guest OS shows just one CPU core instead of two

2013-03-05 Thread Balamurugan V G
I initially did not have this setting in the nova.conf. I then read the OpenStack docs and set it to as below and resstarted nova services and re-created the instance but with same outcome. libvirt_cpu_mode=host-passthrough But I didnt have this issue with Windows Server 2012, it reported 2