[virt-tools-list] Fedora 13 beta - virtualization testing - comments/question

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:45:44PM -0500, Mike Hinz wrote:
> - The cpu usage for a single Win XP seem high at about 22% CPU looking
> at qemu in TOP.  This is with VM minimized with absolutely nothing
> running on it.

Also try virt-top.

> - USB hotplug is a bit of a mixed page:
> [...]

Many of these things will be issues with the hypervisor (ie. KVM)
itself.  You might try looking in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/... and file
bugs as appropriate.  On the other hand, USB hardware is so varied
that it's hard for the developers to reproduce issues.

> I still need to try storage pools on NFS and test other functionality,
> but I thought it might be helpful to put this report out now as the
> release date is getting closer.

Don't forget to test the libguestfs tools!

Rich.

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