[CentOS-virt] (no subject)

Dmitry E. Mikhailov d.mikhailov at infocommunications.ru
Sun Dec 9 08:21:09 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 14:17 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, SilverTip257 wrote:
> 
> > I have a WinXP Pro 32bit VM with virtio drivers and it runs just fine.
> > I don't watch the load on it, so I don't know if its CPU goes idle.  I'll
> > have to take a peek at it next week.
> 
> I have XP, 2003 and Win7 with virtio drivers, and the CPU does go idle on
> all of them when Windows is doing nothing. 
Are we talking about virtual machine's CPU that goes idle or host cpu
that goes idle (i.e. host OS load decreasing) when virtual machine does
nothing?

> However, Windows is often not
> doing nothing; make sure that you have volume indexing, for example, 
> turned off.
> 
> Steve
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