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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: scalability in KVM
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:44:36 +0200
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Il 02/04/2014 20:18, Xin Tong ha scritto:
> Would KVM have any scalability issues in comparison to a real system,
> e.g. if a KVM emulated 16 cores all of which get assign tasks 100% of
> the time. Would KVM scale just as well as a real system ?

It depends on the actual workload and on the guest operating system.

Paolo