over provision cpu

[bklyngaucho]

I have a need to over provision vCPU on one VM. Is there some way to do this via CLI or editing the VM config?

[dolbyman]

What do you mean "overprovision", assign more CPU cores than your (unknown) NAS has?

[bklyngaucho]

Yes. My CPU has 4c/8t and I'd like to assign 9 or 10 vCPUs to a single VM.

[dolbyman]

NAS model is still unknown

You can check the virsh tool via cli and edit the VM settings but any GUI changes would destroy these settings.

So unless you are emulating and older CPU, passthrough actual cores/threads CPU would be the fastest option (emulation would slow things down)

[bklyngaucho]

TVS-882. Thank you for the tips, I'll look into those.