i7 4790k VMWare Processor setup?

whatishacks · February 23, 2017

not sure if this is the right section, apologize if it isnt.

I am wanting to run multiple clients of a game.

Currently, on my regular OS, i can run 20 clients at 40% Usage.

In theory i should be able to run another 15-20 on a virtual client (20 is the max you can run on one OS)

However, I don't know how to set the processor settings in VMWare. Do I put 1 processor and 4 cores per proccessor, or 8 cores per processor? Or something else.

Also there are the other 3 boxes in the settings which I have no idea on.

Any help is appreciated.

leadeater · February 23, 2017

If the OS you are currently using is Windows 10 you can use the Hyper-V role, it works very well and is slightly nicer at dynamically allocating memory to VMs.

leadeater · February 23, 2017

9 minutes ago, whatishacks said:

However, I don't know how to set the processor settings in VMWare. Do I put 1 processor and 4 cores per proccessor, or 8 cores per processor? Or something else.

You can give it as may virtual CPUs as you like up to what your computer has. Don't give any more vCPUs than a VM actually needs though as it actually makes it slower when running multiple VMs. I would give it 1 proc 4 cores since it's currently using 40% of the host OS to run 20.