Question How Does Vmare choose cores?

[Ketchup]

I was just wondering if anyone had found any real info on this. For example - my CPU has 16 cores - 8 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. Vmware workstation offers up to 16 cores for most of my virtual machines, but I don't know how vmware would handle this. I have some understanding of how the P and E cores work on an actual Z690 chipset, but I don't know what virtual hardware would do with that. Does it just grab the real cores first, then go to the efficiency cores? or just go back and forth between the two? I have most of my VMs set between 2 and 4 cores, so more of a curiosity than something I HAVE TO know.

 

[TheELF]

VM is not different from anything else you are running, your CPU has hardware virtualization which means that whatever handles where threads go on your main OS does also do so for the VM and any thread that is run inside there.