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Old 05-01-2019
Providing virtual machine priority in kvm based virtual machines

Hi All,

Is there any way I can prioritize my VMs when there is resource crunch in host machine so that some VMs will be allocated more vcpu, more memory than other VMs in kvm/qemu hypervisor based virtual machines?

Lets say in my cloud environment my Ubuntu 16 compute hosts are running some development and production VMs. When there is resource crunch, I want my production VMs to utilize more vcpu and memory than development VMs. Here the host machine should decide which VMs to give priority in terms of resource allocation so as to increase or decrease vcpu, memory of the hosted VMs.

Tried with virsh command line to set vcpucount. However it needs to reboot the VM to effect the config change which I do not want for my VMs.

I can think of changing nice value of the qemu process (using nice/renice/chrp command options) for my VM instances, but not sure whether it will work properly or not when the actual resource crunch happens as nice is just a scheduler hint to the linux kernel.

Similar question is posted in stackoverflow under "understanding-kvm-cpu-scheduler-algorithm" subject line.

Please let me know is there any linux command line utility or tool available to increase or decrease resource of the VMs based on the resource utilization in host.

thank you for your replies and pointers.

regards,
Sanjay
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NAME
onetemplate SYNOPSIS
onetemplate command [args] [options] OPTIONS
-n, --name vm_name Name of the new Virtual Machine. When instantiating multiple VMs you can use the"%i" wildcard to produce different names such as vm-0, vm-1... -m, --multiple x Instance multiple VMs -l, --list x,y,z Selects columns to display with list command -d, --delay x Sets the delay in seconds for top command -x, --xml Show the resource in xml format -n, --numeric Do not translate user and group IDs -v, --verbose Verbose mode -h, --help Show this message -V, --version Show version and copyright information COMMANDS
o create file Creates a new Template from the given template file o delete range|templateid_list Deletes the given Image o instantiate templateid Creates a new VM instance from the given Template. This VM can be managed with the 'onevm' command valid options: vm_name, multiple o publish range|templateid_list DEPRECATED, use chmod instead. Publishes the given Template. A public Template can be seen and instantiated by other users in the Template's group. o unpublish range|templateid_list DEPRECATED, use chmod instead. Unpublishes the given Template. A private Template can't be instantiated by any other user. o chgrp range|templateid_list groupid Changes the Template group o chown range|templateid_list userid [groupid] Changes the Template owner and group o chmod range|templateid_list octet Changes the Template permissions o update templateid Launches the system editor to modify and update the template contents o list [filterflag] Lists Templates in the pool valid options: list, delay, xml, numeric o show templateid Shows information for the given Template valid options: xml o top [filterflag] Lists Templates continuously valid options: list, delay, xml, numeric ARGUMENT FORMATS
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