[vbox-dev] The EMT thread

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Yao,

On Wednesday 09 January 2013 04:36:04 Yao wrote:
> By reading the source code of Vbox, I have met EMT thread in many parts,
> but there is no more information that I can find in the vbox. Are there
> some important file that I ignore? Anyone know about this? Very grateful
> for your reply

in short, the EM thread is the 'emulation thread' which emulates one
guest CPU. One EM thread per guest CPU, so if your guest has 4 CPUs
configured, your VM process will create 4 EM threads. The threads of
a VM process are scheduled by the host.

Kind regards,

Frank
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