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. -- Vladimir