Looking through old bug tickets... is this still an issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays? Also, what guest operating systems were you running ?
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826401 Title: qemu-system-aarch64 has a high cpu usage on windows Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: Running qemu-system-aarch64 leads to a high CPU consumption on windows 10. Tested with qemu: 4.0.0-rc4 & 3.1.0 & 2.11.0 Command: qemu_start_command = [ qemu-system-aarch64, "-pidfile", target_path + "/qemu" + str(instance) + ".pid", "-machine", "virt", "-cpu", "cortex-a57", "-nographic", "-smp", "2", "-m", "2048", "-kernel", kernel_path, "--append", "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/vda2 rw ipx=" + qemu_instance_ip + "/64 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0", "-drive", "file=" + qemu_instance_img_path + ",if=none,id=blk", "-device", "virtio-blk-device,drive=blk", "-netdev", "socket,id=mynet0,udp=127.0.0.1:2000,localaddr=127.0.0.1:" + qemu_instance_port, "-device", "virtio-net-device,netdev=mynet0", "-serial", "file:" + target_path + "/qemu" + str(instance) + ".log" ] *The cpu consumption is ~70%. *No acceleration used. *This CPU consumption is obtained only by running the above command. No workload on the guest OS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1826401/+subscriptions