[Openstack] KVM shows several processes for a single VM on the host
Chris Friesen
chris.friesen at windriver.com
Tue Sep 9 14:31:16 UTC 2014
On 09/09/2014 07:58 AM, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad wrote:
> Hallo all,
>
> I have an OpenStack setup based on Havana with several compute nodes.
> When I instantiate a virtual machine with 1 or more virtual cores, in
> the process list of the compute node, I am able to see more than 1
> process associated to the same VM. The process list that I refer is the
> process which can be seen by running either top or htop.
>
> Can I know the significance of other processes which are associated to
> the same VM? Are these child processes?
Are they separate processes or separate threads? Separate threads would
be expected, but separate processes would not be.
Chris
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