4 cores and 8 threads

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Tue Sep 06 16, Keith Smith wrote:
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>
>Hi,
>
>If an Intel CPU has 4 cores and 8 threads will it look like 8 cores to 
>VirtualBox when assigning resources to a guest?
>
>If so is there a way to determine which is a tread and which is 
>actually a core?
>
>Thanks!!
>Keith
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In addition to the answers already given, you can read
about it in Volume 1 of the Intel Software Developer's Manual,
section 2.2.8.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html

As to your question, if you have a hyperthreaded CPU it will look like
multiple cores and there is no difference between them as far as
you're concerned.