On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:24:33PM +0200, Conrad Wood wrote: > > a script with my exact steps is below. Result is reproducible. > [...] > echo "Ejecting CPU #4" > echo "cpu_set 4 offline" | nc ${MONITORHOST} ${MONITORPORT} >/dev/null > > printInfo > > echo "Setting all available cpus to online..." > ssh -lroot ${VM} "find /sys/devices/system/cpu/ -type f -path > '*/cpu?/online' -exec bash -c \"echo 1 >{}\" \;" It's not clear if you can trust your guests or not. If you can trust the guest OS, it should be safe to run: echo 1 > /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/LNXCPU:xx/eject in the guest. A normal linux guest wont reactivate the cpu after that. -Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html