Hi Berny,
As noted in my OP, the host is Ubunty Jaunty and the guest is Ubuntu Natty.
In Jaunty the version of top (procps actually) is 3.2.7, whereas in Natty it
is 3.2.8. Thus, this couldn't be the issue.
Thanks,
Brian
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Voelker, Bernhard <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> AFAIK the meaning of the CPU usage percentage can vary with different `top`
> implementations,
> e.g. on Solaris 100% means "all cpus/cores used".
> Look better into /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>
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> *From:* Brian J Mingus [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2011 7:02 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [VBox-users] guest assigned 8 cores, only gets access to 2 or 3
>
> In the following screenshot you can see that VirtualBox 3.2.8 r64453 on
> Ubuntu Jaunty is only using 250% CPU on a dual quad-core machine, whereas in
> the Ubuntu Natty VM 754% is being used. I allocated all 8 cores to the VM so
> I really don't understand what's going on here.
>
>
> http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/7/7c/virtualboxwtf.png
>
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