Mark Cranness wrote:

> On 3 April 2012 23:44, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > I have migrated my VM from an old XP (32bit) host with
> > 1 Pentium 4 core to a new Win7 host (64bit) with an
> > Intel core i5 processor.
> > The guest is XP 32bit.
> >
> > I wanted to give the VM more CPUs, so I moved the CPU
> > slider to e.g. "2". However, the guest still only sees
> > 1 CPU.
> 
> Please see these threads:
> 
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24823&hilit=halu&start=15
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44802
> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45133
> 
> You set the "Enable IO APIC" checkbox and update the XP HAL (Hardware
> Abstraction Layer) executable using HALU.
> Some people (myself included) report the guest then uses very high
> CPU, so you have to revert back to a single CPU.  Perhaps take a
> snapshot so you can easily revert back if anything goes wrong.

Thank you Mark.

Ah, it's a limitation of the guest XP - one another ;-)
If it's such a risk, then I'll live with 1 core ...

Have a nice,
Berny

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