#17701 closed defect (worksforme)
VBox 5.1.28r117968 on FreeBSD only reveals 2 CPU's per guest
| Reported by: | lifeboy | Owned by: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 5.1.28 |
| Keywords: | CPU count | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | other |
Description
VBox 5.1.28r117968 only shows 2 CPU's even though many are available and assigned to a guest.
On the host:
# sysctl hw.model hw.machine hw.ncpu hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz hw.machine: amd64 hw.ncpu: 8
On the Guest (UBuntu 14.04)
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 63 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3500.068 cache size : 10240 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 15 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm retpoline kaiser bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 bogomips : 7000.13 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 63 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 3500.068 cache size : 10240 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 15 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm retpoline kaiser bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 bogomips : 7000.13 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
This is not unique to this host or guest. All our guests on difference hosts display this behaviour.
# VBoxManage list hostinfo Host Information: Host time: 2018-04-19T13:47:18.969000000Z Processor online count: 8 Processor count: 8 Processor online core count: 8 Processor core count: 8 Processor supports HW virtualization: yes Processor supports PAE: yes Processor supports long mode: yes Processor supports nested paging: yes Processor#0 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#0 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#1 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#1 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#2 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#2 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#3 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#3 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#4 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#4 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#5 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#5 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#6 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#6 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Processor#7 speed: 3501 MHz Processor#7 description: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz Memory size: 32619 MByte Memory available: 549 MByte Operating system: FreeBSD Operating system version: 11.1-RELEASE-p1
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Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
by , 6 years ago
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
# cat VirtualBox.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.12-freebsd">
<Global>
<MachineRegistry>
<MachineEntry uuid="{2747ba52-a56b-42bc-a83f-ed75c23fbf29}" src="/home/UbuntuRuby/UbuntuRuby.vbox"/>
<MachineEntry uuid="{b201eed9-5b6f-4c6e-88b2-c74fda56ab2c}" src="/home/IMBWin01/IMBWin01.vbox"/>
<MachineEntry uuid="{40a41e7e-8f73-4083-8d8d-e28132f9abab}" src="/root/VirtualBox VMs/UbuntuRuby2/UbuntuRuby2.vbox"/>
</MachineRegistry>
<NetserviceRegistry>
<DHCPServers>
<DHCPServer networkName="HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0" IPAddress="192.168.56.100" networkMask="255.255.255.0" lowerIP="192.168.56.101" upperIP="192.168.56.254" enabled="1"/>
</DHCPServers>
</NetserviceRegistry>
<SystemProperties defaultMachineFolder="/root/VirtualBox VMs" defaultHardDiskFormat="VDI" VRDEAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" webServiceAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" LogHistoryCount="3" exclusiveHwVirt="true"/>
<USBDeviceFilters/>
</Global>
</VirtualBox>
# cat VirtualBox.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.12-freebsd">
<Global>
<MachineRegistry>
<MachineEntry uuid="{2747ba52-a56b-42bc-a83f-ed75c23fbf29}" src="/home/UbuntuRuby/UbuntuRuby.vbox"/>
<MachineEntry uuid="{b201eed9-5b6f-4c6e-88b2-c74fda56ab2c}" src="/home/IMBWin01/IMBWin01.vbox"/>
<MachineEntry uuid="{40a41e7e-8f73-4083-8d8d-e28132f9abab}" src="/root/VirtualBox VMs/UbuntuRuby2/UbuntuRuby2.vbox"/>
</MachineRegistry>
<NetserviceRegistry>
<DHCPServers>
<DHCPServer networkName="HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0" IPAddress="192.168.56.100" networkMask="255.255.255.0" lowerIP="192.168.56.101" upperIP="192.168.56.254" enabled="1"/>
</DHCPServers>
</NetserviceRegistry>
<SystemProperties defaultMachineFolder="/root/VirtualBox VMs" defaultHardDiskFormat="VDI" VRDEAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" webServiceAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" LogHistoryCount="3" exclusiveHwVirt="true"/>
<USBDeviceFilters/>
</Global>
</VirtualBox>
root@yster1:~/.config/VirtualBox # cat /home/UbuntuRuby/UbuntuRuby.vbox
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application
** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect.
** Use VBoxManage or the VirtualBox Manager GUI to make changes.
-->
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.virtualbox.org/" version="1.16-freebsd">
<Machine uuid="{2747ba52-a56b-42bc-a83f-ed75c23fbf29}" name="UbuntuRuby" OSType="Ubuntu_64" snapshotFolder="Snapshots" lastStateChange="2018-04-13T11:23:24Z">
<MediaRegistry>
<HardDisks>
<HardDisk uuid="{f00c142d-8150-4ecf-8102-75d7ca2c8b7f}" location="Ubuntu 1404.vdi" format="vdi" type="Normal"/>
</HardDisks>
<DVDImages>
<Image uuid="{a77c0d13-c7d6-46d4-92ff-5ce851b81738}" location="/home/VirtualBox_VMs/ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64.iso"/>
<Image uuid="{8c5b567d-7a8b-42b8-8557-e0068c1dfb83}" location="/home/VirtualBox_VMs/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.12.iso"/>
</DVDImages>
</MediaRegistry>
<Hardware>
<CPU count="8" hotplug="true">
<PAE enabled="false"/>
<LongMode enabled="true"/>
<X2APIC enabled="true"/>
<HardwareVirtExLargePages enabled="true"/>
<CpuTree>
<Cpu id="0"/>
<Cpu id="1"/>
</CpuTree>
</CPU>
<Memory RAMSize="12288"/>
<HID Pointing="USBTablet"/>
<Paravirt provider="KVM"/>
<Display VRAMSize="16"/>
<RemoteDisplay enabled="true" allowMultiConnection="true">
<VRDEProperties>
<Property name="TCP/Address" value="192.168.0.2"/>
<Property name="TCP/Ports" value="5902"/>
<Property name="VNCPassword" value="kykN3t"/>
<Property name="VideoChannel/Quality" value="75"/>
</VRDEProperties>
</RemoteDisplay>
<BIOS>
<IOAPIC enabled="true"/>
</BIOS>
<Network>
<Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002780E590" type="82540EM">
<DisabledModes>
<InternalNetwork name="intnet"/>
<NATNetwork name="NatNetwork"/>
</DisabledModes>
<BridgedInterface name="igb1"/>
</Adapter>
<Adapter slot="1" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="2" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="3" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="4" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="5" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="6" type="82540EM"/>
<Adapter slot="7" type="82540EM"/>
</Network>
<LPT>
<Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="7"/>
</LPT>
<AudioAdapter driver="Null" enabled="true"/>
<RTC localOrUTC="UTC"/>
<Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
<GuestProperties>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Revision" value="112440" timestamp="1522481525626726000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/Version" value="5.1.12" timestamp="1522481525626566000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VersionExt" value="5.1.12" timestamp="1522481525626651000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/MAC" value="08002780E590" timestamp="1522481525628490000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/Name" value="eth0" timestamp="1522481525629257000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/Status" value="Up" timestamp="1522481525629118000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/Broadcast" value="192.168.0.255" timestamp="1522481525627914000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP" value="192.168.0.22" timestamp="1522481525627808000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/Netmask" value="255.255.255.0" timestamp="1522481525628017000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/Count" value="1" timestamp="1523959289810535000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/LoggedInUsers" value="0" timestamp="1523957474555253000" flags="TRANSIENT, TRANSRESET"/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/NoLoggedInUsers" value="true" timestamp="1523957474555335000" flags="TRANSIENT, TRANSRESET"/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Product" value="Linux" timestamp="1522481525626229000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Release" value="4.4.0-116-generic" timestamp="1522481525626296000" flags=""/>
<GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/GuestInfo/OS/Version" value="#140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 09:25:20 UTC 2018" timestamp="1522481525626371000" flags=""/>
</GuestProperties>
</Hardware>
<StorageControllers>
<StorageController name="SATA" type="AHCI" PortCount="4" useHostIOCache="false" Bootable="true" IDE0MasterEmulationPort="0" IDE0SlaveEmulationPort="1" IDE1MasterEmulationPort="2" IDE1SlaveEmulationPort="3">
<AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" hotpluggable="false" port="0" device="0">
<Image uuid="{f00c142d-8150-4ecf-8102-75d7ca2c8b7f}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
<AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="1" device="0"/>
<AttachedDevice passthrough="false" type="DVD" hotpluggable="false" port="2" device="0">
<Image uuid="{8c5b567d-7a8b-42b8-8557-e0068c1dfb83}"/>
</AttachedDevice>
</StorageController>
</StorageControllers>
</Machine>
</VirtualBox>
comment:3 by , 6 years ago
I upgraded to vbox 5.2.8 on FreeBSD and the problem has been resolved. My test machine now has 4 CPU's instead of 2.
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
|---|---|
| Status: | new → closed |
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