Answer by Albert Gazendam for Quad Core host with hyper-threading, how many...
I found that even though it is possible (and arguably faster) in VirtualBox (my experience was with version 5.1.0) to allocate vCPUs to a VM based on logical processors, one may run into problems...
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Based on the benchmark done by Kristian Wedberg I would say you should use all logical cores you have.Also I did my own benchmark using same CPU (i7, 4 CPU with HT) which confirmed performance boost...
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Was this a VM original to your machine? Sometimes you will get peculiar errors if you clone a VM and move it to another machine and / or change settings.I recommend downloading and installing the...
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Does the warning I got take into account that my machine has hyper-threading?Yes. If you set the number of cores in a VM to greater than the number you physically have, the task scheduling process in...
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I have a quad-core i7 processor with hyperthreading (8 logical cores), when I configured a virtual machine to use 8 processors, VirtualBox gave me a warning saying that I only have four cores (which is...
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