X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=qm.adoc;h=b3fbe76eb658dd25b42ca5694933aa009d2cb06b;hb=44f38275ee66731c2ca84b288cdade61484ef5d7;hp=7d2efecd348bb1f7626855102f9b54e19007d491;hpb=c069256d382ac00a8bf6190e9c32af1f68dc481a;p=pve-docs.git diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index 7d2efec..b3fbe76 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Hard Disk Qemu can emulate a number of storage controllers: * the *IDE* controller, has a design which goes back to the 1984 PC/AT disk -controller. Even if this controller has been superseded by more more designs, +controller. Even if this controller has been superseded by recent designs, each and every OS you can think of has support for it, making it a great choice if you want to run an OS released before 2003. You can connect up to 4 devices on this controller. @@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ A *CPU socket* is a physical slot on a PC motherboard where you can plug a CPU. This CPU can then contain one or many *cores*, which are independent processing units. Whether you have a single CPU socket with 4 cores, or two CPU sockets with two cores is mostly irrelevant from a performance point of view. -However some software is licensed depending on the number of sockets you have in -your machine, in that case it makes sense to set the number of of sockets to -what the license allows you, and increase the number of cores. +However some software licenses depend on the number of sockets a machine has, +in that case it makes sense to set the number of sockets to what the license +allows you. Increasing the number of virtual cpus (cores and sockets) will usually provide a performance improvement though that is heavily dependent on the use of the VM.