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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: William Heath <wgheath@gmail.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about suspended virtual machine resources on a kvm hypervisor
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <531EC00D.4000900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAcUL6nCqd4fAc-8ArGJSPaLvhKY8_wbPFX3umZPnK=yPYhx2A@mail.gmail.com>

Il 10/03/2014 21:33, William Heath ha scritto:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working with OnApp for a cloud solution.  In order to do billing
> correctly, I am curious what resources are freed up when a virtual
> machine is suspended on a kvm hypervisor.  Are cpu, ram, and disk all
> freed up or what is reallocated to other virtual machines etc...?

A suspended VM uses no CPU.  It still uses RAM, and files are still open 
even though no I/O should happen.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10 20:33 Question about suspended virtual machine resources on a kvm hypervisor William Heath
2014-03-11  7:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-11  8:10   ` William Heath
2014-03-11  8:37     ` Paolo Bonzini

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