Stupid Newbee Questions...

[Stuart Sheldon <stu@actusa.net>]

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I've looked around but can't seem to find these answers.

I'm using KVM to run multiple servers on the same hardware, but it seems
that most of the documentation written is for desktop use.

I'm currently running KVM-66 on a 2.6.24.4 kernel and using the KVM
provided modules. This is sitting on a Debian Lenny install with Intel
hardware.

Here are my questions:

1) Is there a way to give one virtual host priority over another? Would
I just add -cpu 2 on the host I want to give priority?

2) When I started writing the management scripts to start and stop the
guests from the command line, I was using KVM-63 which allowed me to
send a "system_powerdown" to the console, this would send a PWR to the
guest's acpid that would bring the guest down gracefully. This stopped
working in kvm-64 and is still not working in kvm-66. Is there a better
way to do this? How can the host bring down a guest without messing with
it's open programs?

3) Are there any statistics available from to the host os that can be
monitored, such as something in /sys or /proc?

Thanks in advance to all that answer!

Stu



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