[libvirt-users] Windows Guest ignores CPU topology settings on Ubuntu Lucid host

Karol Jędrzejczyk informatyk at ott.pl
Thu Jan 29 11:27:58 UTC 2015


W dniu 2015-01-26 o 12:48, Michal Privoznik pisze:
> On 23.01.2015 13:50, Karol Jędrzejczyk wrote:
>> I try to assign 8 host cores to Windows 2003 Server Standard guest.
>> Because this OS version has a limit of 4 sockets, I have to change the
>> CPU topology. My guest definition:
>>
>>    <vcpu>8</vcpu>
>>    <cpu match='minimum'>
>>      <model>core2duo</model>
>>      <topology sockets='4' cores='1' threads='2'/>
>>    </cpu>
>>
>> doesn't work as expected. I should have 4 CPUs in the Device Manager and
>> 8 CPU charts in Task Manager, but I have the opposite. And no matter
>> what numbers I set in the topology, the guest always detects 8 sockets.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> libvirt 0.7.5
>> qemu-kvm 0.12.3
>
> Probably this ^^^. That's rather ancient libvirt and qemu. Try to upgrade.

Upgraded, everything works, thank you.
-- 
Karol Jędrzejczyk




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