On Sun, 2019-04-07 at 13:35 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 4/7/19 2:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-04-06 at 20:26 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Tom Horsley writes:
> > > 
> > > > Here's a weird one I just noticed: I've been using a
> > > > Windows 10 virtual machine to run my tax software.
> > > > I've got it displayed in virt-viewer and all is
> > > > well, then I close the virt-viewer window and
> > > > leave the KVM running. About 5 minutes later I
> > > > see a cpu suddenly pegged at 100%. I run top and see
> > > > that qemu is the culprit. I start virt-viewer
> > > > again, and it goes back to normal.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone else seen this? Why would nobody looking at
> > > > it make it go crazy I wonder?
> > > 
> > > Because you're using Microsoft Windows 10. Its built-in spyware and
> > > telemetry, that runs all the time and needs to report to Redmond, isn't 
> > > cost-
> > > free and is pretty hard on the CPU.
> > 
> > True, however QEMU-KVM also consumes significant CPU even when the
> > Windows guest is paused:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1638289
> > 
> > poc
> 
> Whenever I have a problem with qemu-qvm, I install the latest
> "upstream".  It is 95% of the time fixed.  if not, "upstream"
> is extremely responsive to input.  Great bunch of guys!
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

Currently on qemu-kvm-3.0.0-4.fc29.x86_64 but I'll consider that.

poc
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