I'm curious how this works.

 

I have a Pentium G2120 which is a Dual Core processor with no hyper-threading.

 

I'm running off of 8 GB RAM.

 

Currently, I have two VMs running.  Mythbuntu & Windows 10.

 

Here is all of the information for the VMs from the unRaid GUI.  These are my questions.

 

1. How do I know what resources are allocated to my unRaid OS?

2. How do I only have 2 cores, yet 2 allocated to Windows, 1 to mythbuntu, and at least one to unRAID?  Is that the max amount allowed to be used?  What type of system is used to effectively allocate?  Is this a mistake to have things allocated in this manner?

 

You have 2 cores on your cpu. No hyperthreading.

 

So you have 1 assigned to one vm and 2 assigned to the other.

What this means is one virtual machine will use only one core whilst the other can use both.

When both machines are running they will share one of the cores, whilst the virtual machine with the two cores will share one core with the other vm and have one to itself.

Unraid will always have access to your cores so you dont have to worry about that.

Think about it like running programmes on a computer. each vm is a programme and unraid is the os.

I hope this makes sense.

 

So just to re-iterate in my own words here:

On a system with 16GB ram, and an 8 core processor: I assign 4GB memory and 4 processors to the VM. The VM only has access to 4GB memory, and 4 processors; but unRaid will still have access to all 16GB memory and 8 processors.

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