VMkernel CPU cycles

Hi guys,.

Could someone point me to a white or similar book that describes where the VMK will run the cpu cycles it takes? As the WWW would need its own cycles to do things like cutting the time and some comments instructions.it of trapping is not made via the service on HEC0 console is it? I mean the vmk doesn't have much to do with the SC for that right?

I know that as 5% or more, we describe the virtualization support, but where is this physically executed overload? I'm specifically talking about cpu here, things of memory are pretty simple.

Thanks for the pointers - I would RTFM but I am not sure where to look...

the vmkernel works on CPU0 (HEC0) as well as the Service Console-

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