Does virtualization consume an entire CPU "core"?

[SickBeast]

I'm wondering if by leaving a virtual machine running all the time, I am monopolizing one of my cores and thus losing its functionality for anything else I do. Does this actually happen?

Say, for example, I have a virtual machine using 10% of the "core" I have assigned to it. Will I be able to use that remaining 90% for other applications on the host machine?

TIA

 

[Crusty]

Absolutely, whatever process is executing the virtual machine will still be subjected to the process scheduler in windows.

 

[Nothinman]

VMs are essentially no different than normal processes to the host, so yes you still get normal usage of that core. CPU usage is sort of a misnomer anyway because only 1 process can execute on a core at once, but the OS switches tasks so many times a second (I can't remember what the default quanta in Windows is right now) that it looks like more than one process is running at once and that percentage is really just a running average of usage over a fraction of a second.

 

[SickBeast]

Thanks very much for the info guys. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Windows 7 runs quite nicely in Virtualbox under Ubuntu.

 

[pcslookout]

I prefer vDesk because I can take my computer with me in my pocket and run any application using 99% of the computer's power even virtually. Talking about all the hardware not just the processor. Hard Drive, Video Card, Sound Card, etc.

http://www.ringcube.com/

http://www.ringcube.com/products/vdesk/features.html

You don't effect the current's computer contents ever either.