[oe] Using bitbake in minimal chroot environment

[Henning Heinold]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:20:05AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Dnia poniedziałek, 15 lutego 2010 o 23:04:37 Tom Rini napisał(a):
> 
> > What are you (and everyone else saying it's fine) running the VM with?
> > I've got people reporting just unusable build times inside VMs on what
> > should be reasonable hardware.
> 
> From my tests VM builds are slower on my hardware. But thats due to fact that 
> VirtualBox or KVM use just one core for VM when natively I can use all 
> 4 cores. And this makes a difference.
> 
> Regards, 
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On newer kvm you can use:

-smp n
           Simulate an SMP system with n CPUs. On the PC target, up to 255 CPUs are supported. On Sparc32 target, Linux limits the
           number of usable CPUs to 4

Bye Henning