diff --git a/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py b/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
index 70fce59..ca00176 100755
--- a/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
+++ b/src/emuvim/api/sonata/dummygatekeeper.py
@@ -301,7 +301,32 @@
             assert(target_dc is not None)
             if not self._check_docker_image_exists(docker_name):
                 raise Exception("Docker image %r not found. Abort." % docker_name)
-            # 3. do the dc.startCompute(name="foobar") call to run the container
+
+            # 3. get the resource limits
+            res_req = u.get("resource_requirements")
+            cpu_list = res_req.get("cpu").get("cores")
+            if not cpu_list or len(cpu_list)==0:
+                cpu_list="1"
+            cpu_bw = res_req.get("cpu").get("cpu_bw")
+            if not cpu_bw:
+                cpu_bw=1
+            mem_num = str(res_req.get("memory").get("size"))
+            if len(mem_num)==0:
+                mem_num="2"
+            mem_unit = str(res_req.get("memory").get("size_unit"))
+            if str(mem_unit)==0:
+                mem_unit="GB"
+            mem_limit = float(mem_num)
+            if mem_unit=="GB":
+                mem_limit=mem_limit*1024*1024*1024
+            elif mem_unit=="MB":
+                mem_limit=mem_limit*1024*1024
+            elif mem_unit=="KB":
+                mem_limit=mem_limit*1024
+            mem_lim = int(mem_limit)
+            cpu_period, cpu_quota = self._calculate_cpu_cfs_values(float(cpu_bw))
+
+            # 4. do the dc.startCompute(name="foobar") call to run the container
             # TODO consider flavors, and other annotations
             intfs = vnfd.get("connection_points")
 
@@ -317,7 +342,8 @@
 
             LOG.info("Starting %r as %r in DC %r" % (vnf_name, self.vnf_name2docker_name[vnf_name], vnfd.get("dc")))
             LOG.debug("Interfaces for %r: %r" % (vnf_name, intfs))
-            vnfi = target_dc.startCompute(self.vnf_name2docker_name[vnf_name], network=intfs, image=docker_name, flavor_name="small")
+            vnfi = target_dc.startCompute(self.vnf_name2docker_name[vnf_name], network=intfs, image=docker_name, flavor_name="small", \
+                    cpu_quota=cpu_quota, cpu_period=cpu_period, cpuset=cpu_list, mem_limit=mem_lim)
             return vnfi
 
     def _stop_vnfi(self, vnfi):
@@ -372,8 +398,9 @@
             config = vnfi.dcinfo.get("Config", dict())
             env = config.get("Env", list())
             for env_var in env:
-                if "SON_EMU_CMD=" in env_var:
-                    cmd = str(env_var.split("=")[1])
+                var, cmd = map(str.strip, map(str, env_var.split('=', 1)))
+                LOG.debug("%r = %r" % (var , cmd))
+                if var=="SON_EMU_CMD":
                     LOG.info("Executing entry point script in %r: %r" % (vnfi.name, cmd))
                     # execute command in new thread to ensure that GK is not blocked by VNF
                     t = threading.Thread(target=vnfi.cmdPrint, args=(cmd,))
@@ -527,6 +554,29 @@
         for name, vnfd in self.vnfds.iteritems():
             LOG.info("Placed VNF %r on DC %r" % (name, str(vnfd.get("dc"))))
 
+    def _calculate_cpu_cfs_values(self, cpu_time_percentage):
+        """
+        Calculate cpu period and quota for CFS
+        :param cpu_time_percentage: percentage of overall CPU to be used
+        :return: cpu_period, cpu_quota
+        """
+        if cpu_time_percentage is None:
+            return -1, -1
+        if cpu_time_percentage < 0:
+            return -1, -1
+        # (see: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.txt)
+        # Attention minimum cpu_quota is 1ms (micro)
+        cpu_period = 1000000  # lets consider a fixed period of 1000000 microseconds for now
+        LOG.debug("cpu_period is %r, cpu_percentage is %r" % (cpu_period, cpu_time_percentage))
+        cpu_quota = cpu_period * cpu_time_percentage  # calculate the fraction of cpu time for this container
+        # ATTENTION >= 1000 to avoid a invalid argument system error ... no idea why
+        if cpu_quota < 1000:
+            LOG.debug("cpu_quota before correcting: %r" % cpu_quota)
+            cpu_quota = 1000
+            LOG.warning("Increased CPU quota to avoid system error.")
+        LOG.debug("Calculated: cpu_period=%f / cpu_quota=%f" % (cpu_period, cpu_quota))
+        return int(cpu_period), int(cpu_quota)
+
 
 """
 Some (simple) placement algorithms
diff --git a/src/emuvim/dcemulator/node.py b/src/emuvim/dcemulator/node.py
index b88913b..a0112cf 100755
--- a/src/emuvim/dcemulator/node.py
+++ b/src/emuvim/dcemulator/node.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
         self.name = "dc%d" % Datacenter.DC_COUNTER
         Datacenter.DC_COUNTER += 1
         # use this for user defined names that can be longer than self.name
-        self.label = label  
+        self.label = label
         # dict to store arbitrary metadata (e.g. latitude and longitude)
         self.metadata = metadata
         # path to which resource information should be logged (e.g. for experiments). None = no logging
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
     def start(self):
         pass
 
-    def startCompute(self, name, image=None, command=None, network=None, flavor_name="tiny"):
+    def startCompute(self, name, image=None, command=None, network=None, flavor_name="tiny", **params):
         """
         Create a new container as compute resource and connect it to this
         data center.
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@
             dimage=image,
             dcmd=command,
             datacenter=self,
-            flavor_name=flavor_name
+            flavor_name=flavor_name,
+            **params
         )
 
         # apply resource limits to container if a resource model is defined