9.3. Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Each Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor within a Cluster has a number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs). The virtual CPUs are in turn exposed to guests running on the hypervisors. All virtual CPUs exposed by Hypervisors within a Cluster are of the type selected when the Cluster was initially created via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Mixing of virtual CPU types within a Cluster is not possible.

Each available virtual CPU type has characteristics based on physical CPUs of the same name. The virtual CPU is indistinguishable from the physical CPU to the guest operating system.