I was able to reproduce this in the way described, marking confirmed.
I'm totally not familiar with the smb option, having never used it. I'm
lowering the priority from Medium - Low, since smb is not one of the
most critical kvm features.
I'm also forwarding the bug upstream. Anthony, this bug
Thanks for your bug report and for your contribution to ubuntu. Does kvm
hogs the CPU if you're not connecting to the smb server? How much memory
is allocated to the guest?
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Status: New =
No it does not hog the CPU if I'm not triggering it the way I described.
I run the machine with 512 megs.
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = New
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kvm smb server hogs cpu guest freeze
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474968
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