From: "Massimo S." Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPS id 2814989 for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:02:32 -0500 Received: from [192.168.200.201] (port=41088 helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by mail.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mw08y-00007f-2l for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:02:21 -0500 Received: from mail2.quasarbbs.net ([80.86.52.115]:10111) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mw08q-0000eJ-2w for virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:02:13 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.199] (dtp [192.168.10.199]) by srv2 (Weasel v2.77) for ; 11 Dec 2021 12:02:16 X-SASI-Hits: BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_900_999 0.000000, HTML_00_01 0.050000, HTML_00_10 0.050000, IN_REP_TO 0.000000, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS 0.000000, MSG_THREAD 0.000000, NO_CTA_URI_FOUND 0.000000, NO_URI_FOUND 0.000000, NO_URI_HTTPS 0.000000, REFERENCES 0.000000, REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM 0.000000, SENDER_NO_AUTH 0.000000, __BODY_NO_MAILTO 0.000000, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0.000000, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0.000000, __CT 0.000000, __CTE 0.000000, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0.000000, __DQ_NEG_HEUR 0.000000, __DQ_NEG_IP 0.000000, __FORWARDED_MSG 0.000000, __FROM_DOMAIN_NOT_IN_BODY 0.000000, __FROM_NAME_NOT_IN_ADDR 0.000000, __FROM_NAME_NOT_IN_BODY 0.000000, __FUR_HEADER 0.000000, __HAS_FROM 0.000000, __HAS_MSGID 0.000000, __HAS_REFERENCES 0.000000, __HAS_REPLYTO 0.000000, __HEADER_ORDER_FROM 0.000000, __IN_REP_TO 0.000000, __MAIL_CHAIN 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_P 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_P1 0.000000, __MIME_VERSION 0.000000, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT 0.000000, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW 0.000000, __REFERENCES 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN 0.000000, __SANE_MSGID 0.000000, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0.000000, __SUBJ_REPLY 0.000000, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0.000000, __TO_NAME 0.000000, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC 0.000000, __TO_REAL_NAMES 0.000000, __URI_NO_MAILTO 0.000000, __USER_AGENT 0.000000 X-SASI-Probability: 7% X-SASI-RCODE: 200 X-SASI-Version: Antispam-Engine: 4.1.4, AntispamData: 2021.12.11.95716 X-SASI-Hits: BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0.000000, BODY_SIZE_900_999 0.000000, HTML_00_01 0.050000, HTML_00_10 0.050000, IN_REP_TO 0.000000, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS 0.000000, MSG_THREAD 0.000000, NO_CTA_URI_FOUND 0.000000, NO_URI_FOUND 0.000000, NO_URI_HTTPS 0.000000, REFERENCES 0.000000, REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM 0.000000, SENDER_NO_AUTH 0.000000, __BODY_NO_MAILTO 0.000000, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0.000000, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0.000000, __CT 0.000000, __CTE 0.000000, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0.000000, __DQ_NEG_HEUR 0.000000, __DQ_NEG_IP 0.000000, __FORWARDED_MSG 0.000000, __FROM_DOMAIN_NOT_IN_BODY 0.000000, __FROM_NAME_NOT_IN_ADDR 0.000000, __FROM_NAME_NOT_IN_BODY 0.000000, __FUR_HEADER 0.000000, __HAS_FROM 0.000000, __HAS_MSGID 0.000000, __HAS_REFERENCES 0.000000, __HAS_REPLYTO 0.000000, __HEADER_ORDER_FROM 0.000000, __IN_REP_TO 0.000000, __MAIL_CHAIN 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_P 0.000000, __MIME_TEXT_P1 0.000000, __MIME_VERSION 0.000000, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT 0.000000, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW 0.000000, __REFERENCES 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY 0.000000, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN 0.000000, __SANE_MSGID 0.000000, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0.000000, __SUBJ_REPLY 0.000000, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0.000000, __TO_NAME 0.000000, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC 0.000000, __TO_REAL_NAMES 0.000000, __URI_NO_MAILTO 0.000000, __USER_AGENT 0.000000 X-SASI-Probability: 7% X-SASI-RCODE: 200 X-SASI-Version: Antispam-Engine: 4.1.4, AntispamData: 2021.12.11.95716 Reply-To: ml@ecomstation.it Subject: Re: [Virtualized eCS] Vbox question and cores (AOS 503) To: Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List References: Organization: eComStation dot it Message-ID: <99c138b6-2895-fc31-e78c-1d0969c94ccc@ecomstation.it> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:02:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; it-IT; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060424 Thunderbird/1.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Language: it-IT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Il 10/12/2021 23:27, Lewis G Rosenthal ha scritto: > On 12/09/21 02:20 pm, Massimo S. wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> is it possible to give 3 or 5 cores to an AOS503 guest VM? >> > > I assume you mean whether you can configure the guest to use 3 or 5 virtual CPUs. If so: > > Yes. Give it 16 or 32 cores, if you like, and you have them. How it runs and whether there is any performance > gain over one core is debatable, considering the load on the host and other factors involved. The problem is > not with the kernel in ArcaOS supporting multiple CPUs but with VBox presenting the CPUs to the guest. > Different versions of VBox seem to behave differently. The latest 6.x versions seem relatively stable. > > Multiple CPUs require I/O APIC to be enabled, which itself may decrease VM performance. > > So, yes, it is possible to "give 3 or 5 cores to an ArcaOS 5.0.3 guest VM." Whether you *should* do that, is > entirely up to you. Ok, thanks i will test the provisioning massimo