Subject: SMP and Xen
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/02/2007 10:52:43
I have a dual-processor machine I'm using for Xen.  A few questions...

First -- is it safe to use SMP with Xen?  I've heard contradictory
opinions on this.  This is Xen3.0.3 on 4.0beta2.

Second -- should my Dom0 see both CPUs?  Currently, it does not.

Third -- is there any performance benefit to setting 'vcpus' to 2 (for
a DomU that would benefit from that)?  That is, will a DomU actually
run on more than one CPU?



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb