I've learned two more things: 1. I installed an ubuntu guest OS, and it has the same high host cpu when the guest is idle. 2. using strace, I see this is 97% of the system calls: ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=25, events=POLLIN}, {fd=26, events=POLLIN}, {fd=27, events=POLLIN}, {fd=30, events=POLLIN}, {fd=31, events=POLLIN}, {fd=32, events=POLLIN}, {fd=33, events=POLLIN}, {fd=34, events=POLLIN}, {fd=35, events=POLLIN}, {fd=36, events=POLLIN}, {fd=37, events=POLLIN}, {fd=38, events=POLLIN}, {fd=39, events=POLLIN}, {fd=40, events=POLLIN}, {fd=41, events=POLLIN}, {fd=42, events=POLLIN}, {fd=43, events=POLLIN}, {fd=44, events=POLLIN}, {fd=45, events=POLLIN}, {fd=46, events=POLLIN}, {fd=47, events=POLLIN}, {fd=48, events=POLLIN}, {fd=49, events=POLLIN}, {fd=50, events=POLLIN}, {fd=51, events=POLLIN}, {fd=52, events=POLLIN}, {fd=53, events=POLLIN}, ...], 84, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=0}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/UOU5LRFPHPUDFF5G74EAJX3AVFKO3ARP/