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**.
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| Sockets | 1 |
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| Cores | 12 |
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| Type | **host** |
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| Enable NUMA | **checked** |
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> **Why `host` CPU type?** It exposes the real CPU feature flags, which NVIDIA
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> drivers expect. Without it, `nvidia-smi` may work but performance-sensitive
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> GPU features fail silently.
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> **Why 12 cores?** The E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores per socket (28 total). Giving
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> VM 100 12 cores leaves the host and other VMs plenty of headroom. Sockets: 1
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> keeps the VM on a single NUMA node for lower memory latency.
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> **Why 12 cores / 1 socket?** The E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores per socket (28
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> total across both CPUs). Keeping Sockets at 1 pins the VM to a single NUMA
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> node — all memory accesses stay local to that socket's RAM channels, avoiding
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> the ~30–40ns penalty of crossing to the other socket. Give VM 100 12 cores
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> from socket 0, VM 101 gets 6 cores from socket 1.
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> **Enable NUMA** tells Proxmox to allocate RAM from the same socket the vCPUs
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> are pinned to. Without it the RAM may come from the wrong socket even if
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> Sockets is set to 1. The checkbox is in **Processors → Edit → Enable NUMA**
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> (not in the Memory dialog).
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> **nested-virt flag** — you will see this in Extra CPU Flags. Leave it at
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> Default; it is automatically enabled when CPU type is `host` on Intel, which
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> is what allows VirtualBox/WinApps to run inside this VM.
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Click **Next**.
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