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From: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
To: Yuksel Gunal <yuksel.gunal@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reserving CPU resources for a KVM guest
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:58:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B08813.2000709@il.qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e001c90494$a459a8a0$6600a8c0@YukselsLaptop>

Yuksel Gunal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing with KVM and was wondering about the following 
> question: is there a resource configuration setting that would enforce 
> a fraction of CPU to be guaranteed for a KVM guest?  What I have on 
> mind is something similar to the "reservation" setting on VMware (used 
> to be called minimum CPU), which guarantees a number of CPU cycles to 
> a VM.  Also, any configuration setting similar to CPU/Memory Shares 
> setting in VMware, which will kick in under contention for resources?
>
VM is like any other process in Linux, you can use cpu controller, 
cgroups or any other scheduling option for your VMs.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-23 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 20:21 Reserving CPU resources for a KVM guest Yuksel Gunal
2008-08-23 21:58 ` Dor Laor [this message]

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