[Bug 1318830] Re: High CPU usage on windows virtual machine
Philip Orleans
venefax at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 02:06:33 UTC 2015
I no longer use KVM. It is unsupported, it seems.
Yours
Federico
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Ryan Harper <1318830 at bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are you running ntp in the host or timekeeping in the guest? If so, is
> the guest clock close to what current time should be?
>
> Also, can you try adding this option:
>
> -global mc146818rtc.lost_tick_policy=slew
>
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> Title:
> High CPU usage on windows virtual machine
>
> Status in QEMU:
> New
> Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I got Ubuntu 14.04, with Qemu 2.0 and moved my windows VM to this new
> box, and made sure that what this article indicates was achieved
> https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/03/qemu-and-usb-tablet-cpu-consumtion/
> I can attest that it works following the instructions, erasing the
> registry, etc.
> Unfortunately, with 4 cpus as below, I still see 60% CPU outside as
> shown by "Top" versus 0% CPU inside. My Kernel is 3.15.0-031500rc4-generic
> If some developer wants to log in and take a look, I am happy to help.
> The box is not in production and I take full responsibility. Until this is
> solved, KVM is not going to compete with Hyper-V or Vmware. Basically KVM
> is not suitable for the Enterprise as of yet.
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name Production -S -machine pc-
> i440fx-2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off -cpu
>
> kvm64,+rdtscp,+pdpe1gb,+x2apic,+dca,+pcid,+pdcm,+xtpr,+tm2,+est,+smx,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+monitor,+dtes64,+pclmuldq,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds,+vme,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0xfff
> -m 4024 -realtime mlock=off -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -uuid
> e8701c5c-b542-0199-fd2a-1047df24770e -no-user-config -nodefaults
> -chardev
>
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/Production.monitor,server,nowait
> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
> -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-
> uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/Production.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-
> disk0,format=raw -device virtio-blk-
> pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-
> disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=30,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=31
> -device virtio-net-
> pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:16:3a:d2:cd:ea,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
> -netdev tap,fd=35,id=hostnet1,vhost=on,vhostfd=36 -device virtio-net-
> pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=52:54:00:70:fe:54,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
> -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-
> serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0
> -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -device VGA,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device
> intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device hda-
> duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device virtio-balloon-
> pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7
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