Re: SMP and Xen

[haad <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I have a dual-processor machine I'm using for Xen.  A few questions...
> 
> First -- is it safe to use SMP with Xen?  I've heard contradictory
> opinions on this.  This is Xen3.0.3 on 4.0beta2.
> 
> Second -- should my Dom0 see both CPUs?  Currently, it does not.
> 
> Third -- is there any performance benefit to setting 'vcpus' to 2 (for
> a DomU that would benefit from that)?  That is, will a DomU actually
> run on more than one CPU?
> 
> 
> 
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
If there is no performance benefit ,this feature can be used to test SMP on
netbsd ;). For domU you don't need serial console to debug .

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