On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 December 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > despite the fact that the user manual insists i can select up to 32
> > CPUs for my guest OS, at the moment, i am limited to 8 with the
> > warning that i've assigned more virtual CPUs (8) than i have physical
> > CPUs (4) and that this is likely to degrade performance. that may be
> > true but shouldn't that be *my* choice?
>
> This is indeed your choice and if you really need more virtual
> processors then use the VBoxManage command line tool but in that
> case please don't open tickets about slow or unresponsive guests. We
> limit the GUI settings to sane values. Believe me, we already close
> enough tickets from power users raising all settings to the maximum
> because they think the more the resources for the guest better. And
> I don't see the point in having more than 8 virtual CPUs on a 4 core
> box (actually 8 is already too much on a 4 core host with two
> hyperthreads per core).
i agree *completely*. i'm just pointing out the logical disconnect
between what the manual claims i can select (even if unwisely), and
the choices i'm actually presented with. this is my inherent pedantry
coming out. :-)
rday
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