[libvirt-users] Hypervisor load much greater than that of the guest

Hello, I've got a situation where I have a couple of vm's running at 300+% cpu on the hypervisor: 9893 qemu 20 0 13.0g 8.2g 4256 S 328.0 4.3 59793:17 qemu-kvm Yet the load within the vm is in the regions of: 1.00, 1.02, 0.98 Everything is reporting OK on both the hypervisor & guest, guest is a qcow2 image on local storage. If anyone could point me in the right direction to start debugging this I'd be grateful. Hypervisor: CentOS release 6.4 (Final) 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6_4.9.x86_64 libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.14.x86_64 Guest: CentOS release 6.4 (Final) 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 Thanks in advance, Damion. Fubra is a company limited by shares and registered in England and Wales with number 3967214 at Manor Coach House, Church Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU12 4RQ. We are registered for VAT with number GB733667024, and as a data controller with number Z5193400. We are members of RIPE, Nominet, The Italian RA and registered with OfCom as a provider of electronic communications service.