On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Alexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings everybody, > > Can anybody please point me to code/documentation regarding the > following questions I have: > > - What does it actually mean using "-smp N" option, in terms of CPU > sharing between the host and the guest? > - How are guest CPUs mapped to host CPUs (if at all)? Each guest CPU (vcpu) corresponds to a QEMU thread. You can see the thread ids in QEMU with "info cpus" in the QEMU monitor. Since a vcpu is a thread you can apply standard Linux mechanisms to managing those threads-- CPU affinity, etc. Stuart -- 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