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Are there any real advantages to assigning more "cores" to VirtualBox?

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Mar 15, 202665309 views
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I have an 2.8 quad core i7 with a VirtualBox. I have the option of assigning up to 4 cores to a guest machine, but I have only been doing two. What are the advantages/disadvantages of assigning more cores to a guest? BTW, I am still able to play StarCraft 2 on Ultra settings all the way while runni…

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The "virtual" cores you assign to a VM are available to use in multi-processing within the client OS. If you assign only one core to a VM, then there is no chance by the guest OS to distribute load across multiple cores. So let's assume some practic…

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