Re: [Qemu-discuss] High CPU in idle Windows guest

2015-05-12 Thread Jakob Bohm
(top posting to keep thread consistent) Then you should remember to pass the qemu options to start the VM as a XEN DomU, not as a software VM inside your current (Dom0) VM. I think (from reading qemu --help) that you may need to do that via something called xend, there is probably a manual somew

Re: [Qemu-discuss] High CPU in idle Windows guest

2015-05-10 Thread Terry Glanfield
Hi Dave, You do know that I'm running a Xen hypervisor and not KVM? I'm not wedded to Xen and would consider using KVM if it's more likely to solve my problem, but it would be good to get the Xen solution working properly. Regards, Terry. Dave Gosselin writes: > Hi Terry, > > It appears that

Re: [Qemu-discuss] High CPU in idle Windows guest

2015-05-10 Thread Dave Gosselin
Hi Terry, It appears that the kernel driver hasn't been started. You can do this manually, before starting qemu, by running this as the root user: modprobe kvm You can confirm that the modprobe command started via the lsmod command: lsmod | grep -i kvm If you see any entries, it's loaded;

Re: [Qemu-discuss] High CPU in idle Windows guest

2015-05-09 Thread Terry Glanfield
Hi Dave, With -enable-kvm I get. Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory Where to next? I'm willing to help diagnose it in whatever way I can. Regards, Terry. Dave Gosselin writes: > Try supplying the -enable-kvm opti

Re: [Qemu-discuss] High CPU in idle Windows guest

2015-05-09 Thread Dave Gosselin
Try supplying the -enable-kvm option to your qemu arguments. If it doesn't work then the support may not be compiled in to qemu or the driver may not be loaded into the kernel. Let me know. Dave Gosselin Sent from my iPhone > On May 9, 2015, at 18:52, Terry Glanfield wrote: > > > Hi, > > I