On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:16:56PM +0100, Dominique Ramaekers wrote: > > I have been using libvirt for a while now with some linux guest installed. And everything has been working great. > > I've got a nice new (used) HP virtual host with 12 x dual core and 48Gb mem. My Windows servers are getting old, so I found it was time to take the next step and also virtualise my Windows systems. > > Now I've got two Windows guests on my new host: > - A Windows 8.1 which runs a Autodesk Job Processor > - A Windows Server 2012 R2 which runs a Pervasive SQL, Autodesk Vault Server (MSSQL, IIS), Autodesk license server,... > > The first is constanly using 30% host-CPU and the second one is using 50% host-CPU. Both guests are using <5% guest CPU... > > (Host system load is between 0.1 and 0.3...) > > Is it normal Windows guests take up 30% to 50% host CPU resources? The Windows 8.1 is actualy a simpel PC with almost no activity... > > Version: > QEMU emulator version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.10), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard If would be helpful if you showed the XML config file for your guests, so we can see what hardware you've configured. Hardware choices can make a big difference to guest performance. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
