And you can share ram across containers not vms. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington wrote: > i love proxmox.have used it fir years > > The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt > > So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu. > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I just watched a video that covered the Proxmox Hypervisor. Seems >> simple enough. I've used Oracle's VirtualBox for years. >> >> So I did some research on what a vCPU is. I was suppressed. The math >> given was (Threads x Cores) x Physical CPU = Number vCPU. >> >> I have an old laptop that has 1 socket, 2 cores, four threads, and 4GB >> of RAM. >> >> Given the math (4 x 2) x 1 = 8 vCPUS. Is this correct? >> >> From my reading it appears that RAM is not shared, so my bottleneck is >> RAM not cores or threads. >> >> I am a PHP developer and a local vps would need 2GB of RAM at a minimum. >> I have found a LAMP VPS will crash if allocated less than 2GB of RAM, >> and will run will on 1 vCPU. >> >> The good news is I really only need one VPS to be active at any given >> time. >> >> If I wanted to build a box that could run more than one VPS at a time, >> lets say 4, and I wanted to allocate 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM I would need >> 4 threads x 2 cores to run the 4 VPS configured with 2 vCPUs each. >> >> What about RAM. Looks like I would need a minimum of 16GB of ram. >> >> How much resources does the Hypervisor need, in this case Proxmox? >> >> Thanks!! >> Keith >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >