High CPU Utilization on idle KVM Windows Guest
so noticed that my windows 10 kvm guest (running on unraid) was chewing up a cpu core. the cpu utilization seemed to die down after i logged into the vm. i logged out of the vm and waited 15 mins and did a htop and watched that VM’s utilization. it seems that it would not drop below 25% which i thought was weird considering the VM was idle. i turned off all the applications/services that were not running but that did not change a thing. after doing some googling for a while i came across a post on the proxmox support forums about this exact issue. they suggested adding these into my config <clock offset=’localtime’> <timer name=’rtc’ tickpolicy=’catchup’/> <timer name=’pit’ tickpolicy=’delay’/> <timer name=’hpet’ present=’yes’/> <timer name=’hypervclock’ present=’yes’/> </clock> after adding the above settings i noticed that the vm is now idling under 8% now its not as low as i wanted it but considering there is an antivirus scanner on the machine a