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kvm,compute-offering: prevent CPU limiting completely (#636)
* kvm,compute-offering: prevent CPU limiting completely Related apache/cloudstack#12637 Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> * Apply suggestion from @DaanHoogland Co-authored-by: dahn <daan.hoogland@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Abhisar Sinha <63767682+abh1sar@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: dahn <daan.hoogland@gmail.com>
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- **CPU cap**: Whether to limit the level of CPU usage even if spare
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capacity is available.
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.. note::
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On KVM hypervisor, to allow CloudStack to relinquish CPU usage control
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entirely, set this option to false and set CPU speed to zero. Note that Instances
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with zero CPU speed offerings should not be co-hosted with Instances using
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non-zero CPU speed offerings, as the CPU speed value is used as a relative
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weight (share) in the ``cputune`` section of the domain XML, and mixing zero
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and non-zero values would skew the weighting.
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- **Volatile**: If checked, Instances created from this service offering
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will have their root disks reset upon reboot. This is useful for
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secure environments that need a fresh start on every boot and for

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