quad core intel

[tommyd]

I'm running on an intel q6600 quad core with 8 gigs ram with 2 500gig sata drives and am currently installing Windows 2008 SBS as a VM.
Is there a way to assign a particular core (1 of 4) to a specific VM ?
Also I currently have 2 SATA 500gig hard drives installed and I believe Proxmox is only using 1 of these drives. Is it possible to add the second 500 gig to proxmox ?

 

[tom]

I'm running on an intel q6600 quad core with 8 gigs ram with 2 500gig sata drives and am currently installing Windows 2008 SBS as a VM.
Is there a way to assign a particular core (1 of 4) to a specific VM ?
Also I currently have 2 SATA 500gig hard drives installed and I believe Proxmox is only using 1 of these drives. Is it possible to add the second 500 gig to proxmox ?

Hi,
thanks for posting. just for information, what OS do you install? win 2008 SBS is not released, which version do you try?

to your question:
the current release just use 1 cpu for KVM guests. the second beta of Proxmox VE can do more, we are already in the testing cycle and we will release soon.

2nd HDD:
is not used by the installer and for images. for testing just use one, but for production you should only go with a hardware raid controller (e.g. using raid1)

 

[tommyd]

I have an eval version of SBS2008 downloaded from microsoft.
I currently have 4 VMs. Windows 2003 Ent server, 2 Xp sp3 Vms and Kubuntu 8-04beta. SBS2008 requires a minimum of 4 gigs ram and 40gigs of hard drive space, a real resource hog.

 

[snesreviews]

the current release just use 1 cpu for KVM guests. the second beta of Proxmox VE can do more, we are already in the testing cycle and we will release soon.

Wow - didn't expect that kind of functionality so soon!

 

[dietmar]

Well, there are still stability issues when using more CPUs with WinXP. So it is not clear if we enable that feature in the next release (still testing)

 

[yatri]

Well, most of us Proxmox-users can read ... why don't you just print a special XP-Warning at the appropriate dialog box - with a further hint to some documentation.

 

[dietmar]

Well, most of us Proxmox-users can read ... why don't you just print a special XP-Warning at the appropriate dialog box - with a further hint to some documentation.

Because 9 of 10 users ignore such warnings.

- Dietmar