How can I create a VM in Vagrant with VirtualBox with two CPUs?
VagrantVagrant Problem Overview
On Windows 7 64 bit trying to start up a VM (Ubuntu 32 bit). I'm having trouble getting my VM to show two cores despite adding the modify vm
command in my Vagrantfile. My Vagrant version is 1.2.2.
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "precise32"
config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "2048"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "2"]
end
end
With this Vagrantfile I issue the vagrant up
command. Then I issue vagrant ssh
followed by lscpu
which yields:
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Stepping: 9
CPU MHz: 2565.513
BogoMIPS: 5131.02
L1d cache: 32K
L1d cache: 32K
L2d cache: 6144K
I think CPU(s) should show 2, so my VM only has one CPU right now. How can I get 2 CPUs to show up when I run lscpu
?
Vagrant Solutions
Solution 1 - Vagrant
Add vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--ioapic", "on"]
to the config.vm.provider
block inside your Vagrantfile.
Looking at the VirtualBox documentation it mentions:
> "Note Enabling the I/O APIC is required for 64-bit guest operating > systems, especially Windows Vista; it is also required if you want to > use more than one virtual CPU in a virtual machine."
Solution 2 - Vagrant
If you are running vagrant using Oracle Virtualbox then the most common issue is with Hyper-V in Windows 7, 8 or 10. That will limit you to 32bit and one cpu.
Run or search for "Windows Features" and select "Turn Windows Features On or Off".
In the checkboxes make sure Hyper-V is off - you can't enable VT-x for Virtualbox with Microsoft Hyper-V hogging it.
Then, you can make your Vagrantfile boot very user friendly with:
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "2404"
vb.cpus = "2"
end
Assuming you want to have two cores running and just a bit over 2 Gig of memory
ps - don't forget to add your port forwarding. For PHPStorm (xdebug, mysql, and web) I use:
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3306, host: 3306
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9000, host: 9000
Solution 3 - Vagrant
It seems you have not mentioned which provider you are using. As of Vagrant 1.7 many VM providers (such as VirtualBox, HyperV) supports the following configuration in your Vagrantfile:
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.memory = 1024
v.cpus = 2
end
Check out the specific provider you are using in the vagrant documentation.