Add vCPU in VMware Fusion for Windows

Add vCPU in VMware Fusion for Windows

As Windows Pro only supports 2 CPU sockets, after added 4 cores in VMware Fusion, the OS is still shown as 2 vCPU. To avoid this is, need to change cpuid.coresPerSocket to handle more than 2 cores.

Parameters

In .vmx file change following parameter, numvcpus is the total number of cores, which can be changed in GUI. cpuid.coresPerSocket should be changed to half of numvcpus.

numvcpus = "4"
cpuid.coresPerSocket = "2"

References

Odd behavior with Fusion 12.2 and Windows 11

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