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Jan Eliasen
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      10-17-2009
Hi all

I am running Microsoft Virtual PC 2007SP1 on Windows 7 64bit.

I hav emultiple virtual machines, and some times I want to run two of
them at the same time. This causes the Virtual PC process on my host
operating system to use up to 50% CPU. But I'd like virtual PC to run
to processes, so the virtual machines can get more CPU time.

Is there any way of doing this?

Thanks.

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Steve Jain [MVP]
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      10-17-2009

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:55:29 +0200, Jan Eliasen
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>Hi all
>
>I am running Microsoft Virtual PC 2007SP1 on Windows 7 64bit.
>
>I hav emultiple virtual machines, and some times I want to run two of
>them at the same time. This causes the Virtual PC process on my host
>operating system to use up to 50% CPU. But I'd like virtual PC to run
>to processes, so the virtual machines can get more CPU time.
>
>Is there any way of doing this?
>
>Thanks.


no, all the VMs in VPC207sp1 share one core.

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      10-18-2009
Jan Eliasen <> wrote:

>I hav emultiple virtual machines, and some times I want to run two of
>them at the same time. This causes the Virtual PC process on my host
>operating system to use up to 50% CPU. But I'd like virtual PC to run
>to processes, so the virtual machines can get more CPU time.


I'm not sure you'd want to unless your system had more than 2 CPUs.
This way at least you are assured of good response time in your host
OS.

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Karl E. Peterson
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      10-20-2009
Steve Jain [MVP] wrote:
> no, all the VMs in VPC207sp1 share one core.


How about Virtual Server? Can you assign different VMs to different cores with
that? (I'm contemplating a migration to 64-bit Windows 7 on a dual-Xeon system, and
shopping for options.)
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      10-20-2009
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:55:29 +0200, Jan Eliasen
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>Is there any way of doing this?

Hi all

So, the answer was no.. bummer But thanks!

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      10-20-2009
Jan Eliasen wrote:
>>Is there any way of doing this?

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> So, the answer was no.. bummer But thanks!


Not necessarily...

"Although you can run Virtual Server on a multiprocessor computer, each virtual
machine can use a maximum of one processor. "
System requirements for Virtual Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...53(WS.10).aspx

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      10-21-2009
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:17:59 +0200, Jan Eliasen
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>On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:55:29 +0200, Jan Eliasen
><> wrote:
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>>Is there any way of doing this?

>Hi all
>
>So, the answer was no.. bummer But thanks!


Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 or Windows VPC for Win7 are you only MS
options for this.

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