From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sukanto Ghosh Subject: Scheduling of VCPUs and allocation of Guest Physical Memory Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:59:07 +0530 Message-ID: <484795C3.8030603@cse.iitb.ac.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.iitb.ac.in ([203.78.217.177]:58937 "HELO smtp1.iitb.ac.in" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753464AbYFEHwd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:52:33 -0400 Received: from [10.105.41.67] (unknown [10.105.41.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-auth.iitb.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B2E138E5 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:55:46 +0530 (IST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, I have two questions regarding KVM: i) Is a VCPU scheduled like a normal Linux process or there is some mechanism by which performance guarantees can be provided to the VCPUs ? ii) Who does the allocation of host physical memory to the guest, is it KVM module or the associated QEmu process ? Also, I would be glad if you can provide me pointers to some documentation/paper/literature which discusses KVM in greater detail than what the paper "kvm: The Linux Virtual Machine Monitor" presents. Thanks, Sukanto