Vista - Latest on how to license CPU's in a VM

With the ability to grant either 1, 2 or 4 CPU's to a guest VM running
Windows Server 2008 what is the latest consensus on how to license the
number of CPU's for a guest VM?

The reason I ask is because there is not a one-to-one correlation
between a guest VM's number of CPU's and the host physical computer's
number of CPU sockets, which is what is typically used to determining
licensing costs.

As far as I know, this would only be relevant with running something like
SQL Server in the VM, where SQL itself is licensed based on the number of
cores. This shouldn't affect other applications where the licensing isn't
based on processor cores. You can oversubscribe the number of processors
within a given Hyper-V system as well.

Hope this helps,
--Ryan

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Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Clustering
MCT, MCITP x3, MCTS x6, MCSE x2, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP

"Mike" <mhowells@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ben Armstrong touched on this in a recent blog entry which might throw
some light on how Microsoft looks at the situation.

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...-machines.aspx


"Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" <ryan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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