2015-11-02 19:45 GMT+01:00 Christer Solskogen <christer.solsko...@gmail.com> :
> On 02.11.2015 18.29, Richard Kuhns wrote: > >> How many cores on your physical box? >> >> I have a 6 core Dell precision 7810. If hyperthreading is enabled (so >> FreeBSD apparently thinks I have 12 cores), and VMs running under >> VirtualBox are so slow as to be totally unusable. If I disable >> hyperthreading, VMs are still extremely slow but usable in case of >> emergency. >> >> > Yes, HT is enabled. I have six cores as well. Pretty sure we're facing the > same issue. I've never tried with HT disabled, however. > > -- > chs You may not use the core 0 (cpu0 and cpu1) with the VMs, I use the CPUSET(1) command to do it. Eg. to start a Windows 7 VM in headless mode I use the command: # cpuset -l 4-7 /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless --comment "Win7;5901" --startvm "Win7;5901" Regards, Maurizio _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
