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Number of cores available to VMware Player limited to physical cores or hyperthreaded cores?
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Mar 15, 202615856 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have an i7 with 2 physical cores, because of hyper threading Windows 7 reports 4 cores (at least in the Task Manager). My question is, when allocating cores to a VM in VMWare Player is it taking from the pool of 4 hyper threaded cores or simply 2 physical cores? Strangely it allows me to select u…
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In response to your second question: So if I say, here Mr.VM take 1 core, will it take 1 of the 4 'cores' or 1 of 2 the physical cores? There is an option when you create the VM and also after you have created it, in the settings panel under Process…
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