[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





More information about the Openstack mailing list