With Windows 10, it’s helpful to enable Hyper-V Enlightenments, to save CPU and increase VM responsiveness. To use these enlightenments, edit your libvirt xml: <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> <hyperv> <relaxed state=’on’/> <vapic state=’on’/> <spinlocks state=’on’ retries=’8191’/> <vpindex state=’on’/> <synic state=’on’/> <stimer state=’on’/> <reset state=’on’/> </hyperv> </features> More information available on https://fossies.org/linux/qemu/docs/hyperv.txt Another interesting note: if… Continue reading Hyper-V Enlightenments with Libvirt