On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 14:29 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's a bug for these issues (no resolution though): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541230 My case was way more extreme, one core pretty much fully used by ksmd. It was with late F14, just before the release of F15. > It's also worth noting that there are lots of knobs to tune KSM in > /etc/ksmtuned.conf. More information is here: Yes, I eventually found out how to disable ksmd. I think that's not the point, the point is that kvm/qemu/virt-manager could be improved in the usability department. And that means it should do a reasonable job without the user first modify lots of tunables. virt-manager has gone a long way of making qemu/kvm a lot more useable, but there's still room for improvements: - I had occasional problems with the keyboard mapping - Storage management is not always logical to me, I didn't find out how to reuse an existing qcow2 image, so in the end I edited config files manually - USB is not really workable. Trying it just now with up2date F15 crashed qemu (guest rawhide) when trying to assign a host USB device to the guest Tom -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel