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When Windows installed selects the HAL library appropriate the the hardware. If you install on a single CPU system then the uniprocessor HAL is installed.<BR>
If you then add a second vcpu to the guest then the windows HAL won't see it. <BR>
You'll need to replace Window's hal. See links below for some background. I don't think there is a Microsoft *supported* way to do this but I've done this a number of times without issue on XP and 2000, but I've not tried this on 2003, 2008 or Vista<BR>
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<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283/en-us">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283/en-us</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;237556">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;237556</A><BR>
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On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 10:40 -0700, David Levinger wrote:<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Hey Guys,</FONT></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">I have a fully virtualized XP guest that is set to have 2 VCPUs and in the guest I see 2 CPUs but when it is under heavy load it only utilizes 1 of the physical cores.</FONT></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Both xm and virsh show that the guest only has 1 CPU, but my config file and the guest show it should have 2.</FONT></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">What am I missing? How can I get this guest to have access to both cores?</FONT></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks!</FONT></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="#000000">David</FONT></FONT><BR>
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