Learning VMware Workstation for Windows: Implementing and Managing VMware’s Desktop Hypervisor Solution

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P. von OvenLearning VMware Workstation for Windowshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9969-2_3

3. Configuring CPU Resources

Peter von Oven¹  

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Gloucestershire, UK

 

In this third chapter, we are going to focus our attention on the central processing unit, or CPU, and in the virtual world how this works and how to configure this resource within VMware Workstation Pro.

We are going to look at the terminology that is used to describe the different elements of a CPU. We will then define what a virtual central processing unit, or vCPU, is, before looking at how the two relate to each other. By this we mean looking at calculating the ratio of physical CPUs to virtual ...