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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 09:37:17 +0100
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Il 11/03/2014 09:10, William Heath ha scritto:
> So is the CPU re-allocated to other virtual machines that need them?

In KVM, virtual CPUs are just threads; if a thread does not want to run, 
the Linux scheduler does not give it any CPU.  If the virtual machine 
monitor you're using is QEMU, the virtual CPU threads of a suspended VM 
will be waiting on a condition variable until the VM is resumed.

> I take it then that RAM and disk usage are not reallocated?

No.  But RAM can be swapped out, for both suspended and running VMs.

Paolo