Re:

[Marcus White <roastedseaweed.k@gmail.com>]

Hello,
A friendly bump to see if anyone has any ideas:-)

Cheers!

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Marcus White
<roastedseaweed.k@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I had some basic questions regarding KVM, and would appreciate any help:)
>
> I have been reading about the KVM architecture, and as I understand
> it, the guest shows up as a regular process in the host itself..
>
> I had some questions around that..
>
> 1.  Are the guest processes implemented as a control group within the
> overall VM process itself? Is the VM a kernel process or a user
> process?
>
> 2. Is there a way for me to force some specific CPU/s to a guest, and
> those CPUs to be not used for any work on the host itself?  Pinning is
> just making sure the vCPU runs on the same physical CPU always, I am
> looking for something more than that..
>
> 3. If the host is compiled as a non pre-emptible kernel, kernel
> process run to completion until they give up the CPU themselves. In
> the context of a guest, I am trying to understand what that would mean
> in the context of KVM and guest VMs. If the VM is a user process, it
> means nothing, I wasnt sure as per (1).
>
> Cheers!
> M