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On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:53 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> One host can have a few RT guests, say a host with 8 CPUs
> can have up to 6 or 7 RT VCPUs.  Those guests get top
> priority. 

RT guests don't make sense, there's nowhere near enough infrastructure
for that to work well.

I'd argue that KVM running with RT priority is a bug.