Hi Orion Poplawski!

 On 2012.07.17 at 16:46:19 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote next:

> >That depends heavily on what version of Fedora they are (particularly Rawhide
> >instances), and what services they are running.
> 
> Well, I have a Fedora 17 instance running now with nothing but
> kernel processes and the qemu-kvm process still shows using 7-8%
> cpu.


Run "vmstat 1 10" on both guests and compare output; look for
differences in amount of context switches, CPU system usage and such.

Also running powertop and comparing wakeups/sec and general output on
guests might give some hint.


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Vladimir