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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen CPU limit?

To: "Martin Lukasik" <martin.lukasik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen CPU limit?
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100
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>>> Martin Lukasik <martin.lukasik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11.03.10 17:08 >>>
>Can somebody explain why the number of CPUs Xen can handle is limited to 32?
>I have a machine with 48 cores, and would love to virtualise it, but if 
>I do it, I loose 16 CPUs, which isnt very good... :-(
>Where is this limit coming from? Or maybe it is possible to change it 
>somewhere in the source files?

This is done on the make command line, by adding "max_phys_cpus=...".

Jan


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