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 – Specify location of console NVRAM file.

hostid 

Assign virtual CPU processing to a specific host CPU.

Syntax

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.

path 

Specify location of console NVRAM file.

Syntax

Description

This property specifies the location of the console NVRAM image.  It contains information such as environment variable settings, boot flags, etc.  Set nvram-path to a location on the host system where this information can be stored.