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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question about suspended virtual machine resources on a kvm hypervisor
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:49:33 +0100
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Il 10/03/2014 21:33, William Heath ha scritto:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working with OnApp for a cloud solution.  In order to do billing
> correctly, I am curious what resources are freed up when a virtual
> machine is suspended on a kvm hypervisor.  Are cpu, ram, and disk all
> freed up or what is reallocated to other virtual machines etc...?

A suspended VM uses no CPU.  It still uses RAM, and files are still open 
even though no I/O should happen.

Paolo