For me it eats 10-20%, and I was not able to lower that (linux uses 0%). And if I am not mistaken, it eats 100% when you have chosen wrong ACPI parameters in domain.xml. Take a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager/+bug/228442 On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 00:25, Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer@xxxxxx> wrote: > Am Montag 10 Januar 2011 schrieben Sie: >> On Mon, January 10, 2011 07:05, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I run Debian on my Laptop Lenovo X60s (with VT). >> > I've created a Windows-XP as well as a Windows-Vista guest on it. >> > Both, XP as well as Vista, eats as many CPU as available. >> > Therefore the CPU always has high load and will never reduce > cpu-frequenz >> > or ventilator. >> >> Can you check if there is a particular process inside Windows that is >> using all of the CPU via the Task Manager? >> >> Steve >> >> > > No, there is only the idle-process ("Leerlaufprozess" in german) which need > 96% of the CPU in an average. > In the same time KVM needs nearly 100% of my Host-CPU. > > 13895 ? Sl 21:21 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 256 -smp 1 -name > devel-xp -monitor pty -localtime -no-acpi -boot c -drive > file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/devel-xp.qcow2,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -drive > file=/mnt/MultiMedia/CD-Server/Betriebssysteme/Windows/WindowsNT/WindowsXPpro_sp2_de.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 -net > nic,macaddr=54:52:00:61:dd:94,vlan=0 -net > tap,fd=14,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel > none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k de -soundhw es1370 > > br > Matthias > -- > Don't Panic > > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users >