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Is is ever possible that a given computer has several processors among which only some have Hyper Threading technology and others do not?

My problem is that I use hardcore code like here for identifying which logical processors map to which physical cores. This code misbehaves when run in a virtual machine. My current intent is to first check whether the processor has Hyper Threading at all but I need to be sure that all other processors in the system also have (or not have) Hyper Threading.

Is it possible that only some processors in a system have Hyper Threading and others do not?

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This should probably be asked at stackoverflow.com – nik Sep 17 '09 at 9:19
Nope, that's not programming related, it's a pure hardware problem. – sharptooth Sep 17 '09 at 9:34
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I think the most common kind of multi CPU support is Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) which requires identical processors. I believe this is true for Windows and most Linux distributions.

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right - mixing CPUs is highly frowned-upon; they need to bethe same everything - cache, speed, number of cores, etc – warren Sep 17 '09 at 10:58
@warren They sometimes need to be the same revision number of a particular processor as a friend of mine found out to his cost. I remember seeing a chart he found showing which revisions of a Pentium II-300 would SMP happily together. – Dave Webb Sep 17 '09 at 11:03
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