How to allocate cores / threads / memory to VM for dummies

[MortenSJ]

Hi guys

Please forgive me. I'm not an expert and I've tried to google my way out of this, but I can't seem to find the answer i'm looking for.

I have a TrueNAS system running with the following hardware.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3225 CPU @ 3.30GHz
HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB)

I'm running an Ubuntu VM, but I'm not sure how to allocate core / threads and memory the correct way. I need to be able to run a specific software on my Ubuntu that has the following system requirements.

3 cores / 6 native threads
6 GB RAM
150 GB free space. (HDD or SSD)

My CPU only has 2 cores and 6 threads. Am I out of luck here?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Your CPU only has 2 cores and 4 threads (2/CPU). bhyve won't let you specify sockets * cores * threads > 4, the physical limit of your CPU.

 

[MortenSJ]

Gotcha. It looks like I need some hardware updates then :)