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Old 10-31-2008   #2 (permalink)
Steve Jain [MVP]
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Re: Virtual Server & processor allocation

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:09:02 -0700, Maani
<Maani@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to install a virtual machine on to my "windows server 2003"
>application server. I use Virtual Server 2005 SP1. The box is a dell
>poweredge 1425c on with dual core processor in it.
>
>I saw options to allocated % of CPU usage to virtual machines. But I really
>want to dedicate one processor to the virtual machine. In that way I can make
>sure it always have a fixed processing power.
>
>I wonder if it is possible?
You can dedicate 100% of 1 cpu, which would be 50% of your dual core
systems processing power.
If you reserve 100% of the cpu power for your VM, then you'll get 100%
of one core.

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