Re: kvm-50 working with smp

Avi Kivity
2007-11-05T14:05:23Z

Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> it seems the latest kvm-50 working with smp both with 32 and 64 bit
> centos-5 are now running (ie not crash), what's more it's even working
> if i trun back (ie on) acpi. but it seems much more slower with 2 guests
> 4 vcpu then kvm-36 with 2 guests single cpu. is so much slower then it
> can be recognized even just http response or anything else:-(
> another problem the windows xp guest eat 100% all the time.
>
>

Without FlexPriority (or tpr patching) Windows SMP is very slow. It
shouldn't take 100% cpu though. If this is immediately after boot, wait
a couple of minutes to let Windows load all its services.

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