ProLiant Microserver & 1 vm - pfsense= high cpu usage?

Robstarusa

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Feb 19, 2009
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Hello,

I recently installed Proxmox VE 2.0 on a proliant microserver in stock configuration (2G ecc ram, 250G sata disk). I've installed a single pfsense (2.0.1-RELEASE) vm and have given it two virtual nics. The nics are actually 802.1q virtual interfaces on the host. DMZ is vlan 10, lan is vlan 75. This all works OK and the vm has connectivity (& seems to boot/operate at normal speed) but even when the VM is idle, proxmox shows 50% cpu usage.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Do I need to choose a specific cpu type for the guest?

I created a test linux vm and idling it eats 5-10% cpu.