HaloJones
10th July 2009, 14:23
For those who haven't seen this elsewhere, it is possible with VMWare Workstation to get a VM to use all four processors in a VM. This can make running the Linux SMP client on a quad-core Windows machine far easier to manage and more productive than running two VMs each with two cpus.
This only seems to work with the full Workstation product. The free VMWare Server product cannot do this!
Simply edit a line in the .vmx for the VM stating numvcpus = 4
and the VM will start with four cpus instead of 2.
I have done this on a box that could not run two full Linux VMs so was limited to half the power of the quad and the ppd has lifted from 2600 to 5500.
Obviously Workstation has a price but using the trial copy plus some diligent searching on the web resolved that little problem.
This only seems to work with the full Workstation product. The free VMWare Server product cannot do this!
Simply edit a line in the .vmx for the VM stating numvcpus = 4
and the VM will start with four cpus instead of 2.
I have done this on a box that could not run two full Linux VMs so was limited to half the power of the quad and the ppd has lifted from 2600 to 5500.
Obviously Workstation has a price but using the trial copy plus some diligent searching on the web resolved that little problem.