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[Xen-users] Getting Windows 2003 to run in multiple cores ???

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Subject: [Xen-users] Getting Windows 2003 to run in multiple cores ???
From: "Madhu Venugopal (vmadhu)" <vmadhu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:19:25 -0700
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Hi,

Installed Windows 2003 on XEN successfully (domain name : win1).
I could not get it running in multiple cores though (tried vcpus=4).
Windows taskmanager shows only 1 CPU always :-(.

Can someone help ?

Logs of interest :
================
[root@localhost images]# cat win1.cfg
kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory = '2048'
device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'

# Hostname
name = 'win1'
cpus = "0-1"
cpuid=['1:edx=xxx1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,ebx=xxxxxxxx00010000xxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx','4,0:eax=001111xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx']
vcpus=4


[root@localhost xen]# xm list --long
...
(domain
    (domid 41)
    (on_crash restart)
...
    (bootloader_args )
    (vcpus 4)
    (name win1)
...
    (cpus ((0 1) (0 1) (0 1) (0 1)))
    (bootloader )
    (maxmem 2048)
    (memory 2048)
...
    (online_vcpus 1)
...


[root@localhost xen]# xm info
host                   : localhost.localdomain
release                : 2.6.18.8-xen
version                : #1 SMP Tue Jul 28 12:05:11 PDT 2009
machine                : i686
nr_cpus                : 8
nr_nodes               : 1
cores_per_socket       : 4
threads_per_core       : 1
cpu_mhz                : 2666
...
node_to_cpu            : node0:0-7
node_to_memory         : node0:9
xen_major              : 3
xen_minor              : 4
xen_extra              : .1-rc9
xen_caps               : xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p 
xen_scheduler          : credit
xen_pagesize           : 4096
...
xen_changeset          : Tue Jul 28 17:04:24 2009 +0100
19708:0ae681bbd70b
[root@localhost xen]#



Thanks.

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