>> >> Is it possible with KVM? >> And if it is, how could it be done? > > You can do it in userspace. > > Put all VM's in a cgroup to ensure didicated cpu shares. > Remaining all house keeping processes, put in another group and > allocate some cpu shares. > Hi Pradeep and thank you for replying. Since I have no experience on cgroups (and little experience on sys administration), is the following guide: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Resource_Management_Guide/index.html a good place for a beginner to start? My system is currently a Fedora 16. Thank you very much. Best, -- Marco -- 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