Hi Rasto,<div><br></div><div>First of all, thanks for all the improvements in the latest version.</div><div><br></div><div>1) When I create a VM and change the VNC password to 'something' it is not possible to clear this password later on.</div>
<div>It is only possible to change the password in something else but the password field is already empty when editing so I cannot apply to clear it.</div><div><br></div><div>2) Any ETA on the TODO list item (my feature requests from a couple of months ago) about the console window which stays active after shutdown of a VM?</div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">>> -When I shutdown a VM from the VNC <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">console</span>, the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">console</span> stays 'active'<br>
>> even if the VM has shut down, it would be nice if the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34);background-repeat:initial initial">console</span> is<br>>> closed when the VM has shutdown.<br>
<br></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">>I've put that on my TODO list.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>3) It would be nice if LCMC supported specifying the amount of cores per socket.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I have a system with a quad-core CPU and i noticed that when adding 4</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">cpu's to a Windows 7 VM, Windows 7 only sees 2 processors.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Here's why:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The vcpu switch defaults to giving the vm <no. op cpus> physical</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">processors (4 CPU sockets in other words).</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">So to windows this is like having a motherboard with 4 CPU sockets</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">with 4 CPU's (each with 1 core).</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Since all windows desktop versions (including Windows 7) have a limit</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">of supporting up to 2 physical processors, is the reason why Windows 7</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">only sees two processors.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">But Windows 7 is perfectly able to see a single cpu with 4 cores or 2</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">CPU's with 2 cores each for instance.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There is a <cpu> switch in the domain XML format documentation where you can specify this:</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div>In case no restrictions need to be put on CPU model and its features, a
simpler <code>cpu</code> element can be used.
Since 0.7.6</div><div>
<pre> ...
<cpu>
<topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
</cpu>
...</pre><div><br></div><div>So in order to get a quad core windows 7 VM it is needed to specify:</div><div><pre> <cpu>
<topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/>
</cpu></pre><pre></pre></div><div>Let me know what you think of this feature.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div>Caspar Smit<br></div>