Chapter 22. Advanced virtualization administration

22.1. Guest scheduling
22.2. Advanced memory management
22.3. Guest block I/O throttling
22.4. Guest network I/O throttling

This chapter covers advanced administration tools for fine tuning and controlling virtualized guests and host system resources.

Note

This chapter is a work in progress. Refer back to this document at a later date.

22.1. Guest scheduling

KVM guests function as Linux processes. By default, KVM guests are prioritized and scheduled with the Linux Completely Fair Scheduler. Tuning the schedule for guest processes may be required for some environments or to prioritize certain guests.