A virtual processor is the processor that you assign to a virtual machine. In Hyper-V 2012 R2, a virtual machine can have up to eight virtual processors, as shown in Figure 1.

That is what processor virtualization is really all about anyway; sharing the hardware in some secure manner, but in such a way that the capacity available in that hardware is being more fully used.

In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud ...

Allocating CPU resources in Hyper-V has always been somewhat simplistic. Through the Hyper-V Manager, administrators are able to allocate virtual processors to individual virtual machines (VMs ...

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Some will see it as a great thing, and others as an example of how JavaScript is being abused daily, but [Francis Stokes] decided to design his own CPU architecture and implemented a virtual ...

Switching to 'host' CPU type in Proxmox can significantly enhance virtual machine performance by utilizing the full potential of your CPU.

Backed by a who's who list of big names in the chip industry, startup Soft Machines is launching a chip that spreads workloads out over a CPU's cores.

SiFive is the leading provider of processor cores, accelerators, and SoC IP to create domain-specific architecture based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture.

VaST Systems today (May 31, 2005) released its new Virtual Processor Model Transformer (VPM-T) for use by early adopters, enabling modification of the instruction set of a seed processor model.

Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server New technique could pierce a key defense found in cloud environments.