Document NUMA and nested-virt in CPU tab for VM 100

- Add Enable NUMA row to CPU table
- Explain NUMA node pinning and cross-socket penalty
- Note nested-virt flag appears automatically with host CPU type
- Clarify NUMA checkbox location (Processors, not Memory dialog)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -2190,14 +2190,26 @@ Click **Next**.
| Sockets | 1 |
| Cores | 12 |
| Type | **host** |
| Enable NUMA | **checked** |
> **Why `host` CPU type?** It exposes the real CPU feature flags, which NVIDIA
> drivers expect. Without it, `nvidia-smi` may work but performance-sensitive
> GPU features fail silently.
>
> **Why 12 cores?** The E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores per socket (28 total). Giving
> VM 100 12 cores leaves the host and other VMs plenty of headroom. Sockets: 1
> keeps the VM on a single NUMA node for lower memory latency.
> **Why 12 cores / 1 socket?** The E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores per socket (28
> total across both CPUs). Keeping Sockets at 1 pins the VM to a single NUMA
> node — all memory accesses stay local to that socket's RAM channels, avoiding
> the ~3040ns penalty of crossing to the other socket. Give VM 100 12 cores
> from socket 0, VM 101 gets 6 cores from socket 1.
>
> **Enable NUMA** tells Proxmox to allocate RAM from the same socket the vCPUs
> are pinned to. Without it the RAM may come from the wrong socket even if
> Sockets is set to 1. The checkbox is in **Processors → Edit → Enable NUMA**
> (not in the Memory dialog).
>
> **nested-virt flag** — you will see this in Extra CPU Flags. Leave it at
> Default; it is automatically enabled when CPU type is `host` on Intel, which
> is what allows VirtualBox/WinApps to run inside this VM.
Click **Next**.