diff --git a/config.yml.example b/config.yml.example
index 753d0a0a..f7b99e1e 100644
--- a/config.yml.example
+++ b/config.yml.example
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ measurement:
 ######### The value for memory must be in GB not in GiB
 #        HW_MemAmountGB: 16
 #        Hardware_Availability_Year: 2011
+######### vhost_ratio is the virtualization degree of the machine. For Bare Metal this is 1. For 1 out of 4 VMs this would be 0.25 etc.
+#        VHost_Ratio: 1
+
   #--- END
 
 
diff --git a/metric_providers/psu/energy/ac/xgboost/machine/provider.py b/metric_providers/psu/energy/ac/xgboost/machine/provider.py
index d9613b58..51f418bd 100644
--- a/metric_providers/psu/energy/ac/xgboost/machine/provider.py
+++ b/metric_providers/psu/energy/ac/xgboost/machine/provider.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 class PsuEnergyAcXgboostMachineProvider(BaseMetricProvider):
     def __init__(self, *, resolution, HW_CPUFreq, CPUChips, CPUThreads, TDP,
-                 HW_MemAmountGB, CPUCores=None, Hardware_Availability_Year=None, skip_check=False):
+                 HW_MemAmountGB, CPUCores=None, Hardware_Availability_Year=None, VHost_Ratio=1, skip_check=False):
         super().__init__(
             metric_name="psu_energy_ac_xgboost_machine",
             metrics={"time": int, "value": int},
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ def __init__(self, *, resolution, HW_CPUFreq, CPUChips, CPUThreads, TDP,
         self.HW_MemAmountGB = HW_MemAmountGB
         self.CPUCores = CPUCores
         self.Hardware_Availability_Year=Hardware_Availability_Year
+        self.VHost_Ratio = VHost_Ratio
 
     # Since no process is ever started we just return None
     def get_stderr(self):
@@ -103,6 +104,8 @@ def read_metrics(self, run_id, containers=None):
 
 
         df.value = df.value.apply(lambda x: interpolated_predictions[x / 100])  # will result in W
+        df.value = df.value*self.VHost_Ratio  # apply vhost_ratio
+
         df.value = (df.value * df.time.diff()) / 1_000 # W * us / 1_000 will result in mJ
 
         # we checked at ingest if it contains NA values. So NA can only occur if group diff resulted in only one value.