A question about unraid

[Soopernova67]

I was watching Linus's video about a quad cpu system and in it he said that it had to run windows server because regular windows wouldn't support 4 cpu's. So I was wondering, would it be possible to run Unraid as the bare metal os and then just create a windows 10 vm and give it all of those cpu threads, that way you would basically all the power of a quad cpu machine but you could still run a consumer version of windows on it.

 

[leadeater]

The only way that would work is if the CPU threads were presented to Windows as a single socket many many core cpu, can be done and different hypervisors support different amounts of cpu cores to virtual sockets.

 

Either way it would be totally pointless unless you had an application that could make use of so many cores, and not only that if your buying a quad socket system you can afford Windows Server so why bother with a botched setup? You can still play games, render, edit etc on Windows Server and use it like a desktop, they have the same core(kernel) behind them.

[Electronics Wizardy]

9 hours ago, leadeater said:

CPU threads were presented to Windows as a single socket many many core cpu,

This would cause other issues due to the delays in numa nodes.

 

Also, windows server 2016 and newer are charging for cores, not sockets, so a quad 8 cores should cost the same to licence as a dual 16 core system.