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Non-volatile RAM configuration.

The system section is used to configure "system-wide" properties of the virtual machine.  The list below describes the options that can be set:

  • hostid – Assign virtual CPU processing to a specific host CPU.
  • path – Assign virtual machine I/O processing to a specific host CPU.

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Assign virtual CPU processing to a specific host CPU.

Syntax

cpu_affinity = cpu-affinity [, cpu-affinity [, ... ] ]

Description

This option is a comma delimited list of host CPUs (or cores) that the virtual machine is to assign to virtual CPU threads.

The virtual machine will assign affinity automatically if this option is not set.

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Assign virtual machine I/O processing to a specific host CPU.

Syntax

io_affinity = io-affinity [, io-affinity [, ... ] ]

Description

This option accepts a comma delimited list of specific host CPUs (or cores) the virtual machine will assign to I/O processing.

If this directive is unset the virtual machine will assign affinity automatically.