Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.

Does anybody know if it's possible / if any work is being done towards presenting multi-core vCPUs in KVM, rather than / in alternative to simply presenting a bunch of individual vCPUs? The reason I ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...