Subject: Re: XEN0 kernel with options MULTIPROCESSOR
To: Florent Parent <florent.parent@gmail.com>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 03/30/2006 14:35:39
Florent Parent wrote:
> On 3/30/06, Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org> wrote:
>> No, there is no multiprocessor domain support in Xen 2.0.x. However, if
>> you have multiple CPUs, you can assign domains to each of the CPUs by
>> appropriately setting the "cpu" variable in your domain config file.
>
> I might be missing something here, but if domain0 (not domainU) is not
> "aware" of the 2 CPUs (in my case), how can you possibly assign the
> CPUs to unprivileged domains?
Your domain config file is used as input to xend to talk to the Xen
hypervisor, which *does* see both CPUs, and can assign domainUs to a
particular CPU.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>