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RE: [Xen-users] Multiple CPUs and Win2k

To: "'Martin Goldstone'" <m.j.goldstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Multiple CPUs and Win2k
From: "Tim Boyer" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 07:08:03 -0400
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> 
> What version of Xen are you running?  I've had various problems with
> multiple VCPUs in HVM guests before Xen 3.1.

3.0.3, but I've got no problem running RHEL5 fully virtualized with multiple
CPUs.

>  Additionally, was the
> guest installed with these same settings? Did you force it 
> into Standard
> PC or Uniprocessor ACPI when you installed it?
>

Aha!  Didn't think of that - had to force it to Standard PC.  Could that
have made the difference?

-- tim --
 
> Mart
> 
> Tim Boyer wrote:
> > Is there a problem specifying multiple cpus with Windows 
> 2000?  I'm running
> > a dual quad core system and RHEL5, and my paravirtualized 
> RHEL5 systems seem
> > to be able to accept more than one cpu, but the Win2K fully 
> virtualized
> > system just shows 1 - no matter how many vcpus I specify. 
> Config file looks
> > like so:
> > 
> > name = "plcdata"
> > builder = "hvm"
> > memory = "2048"
> > disk = [ 'file:/dg/xen-plcdata,hda,w', 
> 'file:/usr/src/pc.iso,hdb:cdrom,r', ]
> > vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0', 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1', ]
> > device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
> > kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> > vnc=1
> > vncunused=1
> > apic=1
> > acpi=1
> > pae=1
> >  
> > vcpus=2
> > serial = "pty" # enable serial console
> > on_reboot   = 'restart'
> > on_crash    = 'restart'
> > 
> > Any suggestions appreciated.  Thanks much...
> > 
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