I'm thinking about replacing one of my computers. I don't know if that will be my Qubes machine or one of the others. I talked to the owner of the local mom & pop computer shop. I said that I was considering getting an AMD processor, because they have a lot of cores. He said that most applications don't take advantage of more than four cores. I said that I want to run a lot of VMs. He said even there it didn't matter much.
I'm guessing that he might be thinking of type 2 hypervisors, which are basically just another application running on Windows. I had assumed that a type 1 hypervisor such as Xen with Qubes would be different. Does anybody know if that is true? If I buy a computer with 8 cores and set up a VM to use 2 virtual CPUs, does Qubes assign 2 cores to it? If I have 3 VMs, each crunching intense numbers, does Qubes give them two cores each? (That leaves the other 2 cores for running the OS.) Or is this naive, because CPUs and OSes are complex things and don't work that simplistically? Or to simplify, assuming that an Intel CPU with 4 cores is roughly equivalent to an AMD CPU with 8 cores, would Qubes with a lot of open & busy VMs run a lot faster on the AMD machine? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1088df2a-2e16-41ef-bcb0-54bdf7517704%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
