[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] manager: show guest machine stats under Details -> Performance.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:43:45PM +0200, Tadej Janež wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 17:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: 
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:23:27PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks, pushed now.
> 
> Cole, thanks for accepting the patch.
> 
> > > This screen needs some work though. The memory stats are basically useless,
> > > since it's a very rare operation that VM memory allocation is changed, so the
> > > graph will always appear to be a straight line.
> 
> Yes, I completely agree. When I was preparing this patch, I also wanted
> to plot the actual memory usage inside the guest. However, since I
> didn't know how to obtain this info, I left it as is.
> 
> > There is an API for fetching
> > > actual memory usage from inside the guest, however I think it's fairly
> > > heavyweight so we couldn't just plug it in to the existing graph.
> > 
> > There is the virDomainGetMemoryStats API which on QEMU is wired through
> > to the 'query-balloon' monitor command. This doesn't do calls into the
> > guest OS at all - the guest pushes stats down the host asynchronously
> > from this. So performance / scalability is on a par with the existing
> > APIs for querying disk stats.
> 
> I've searched for 'virDomainGetMemoryStats' in the libvirt's API
> (http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html), but I couldn't find
> anything. Though, there is a function with a similar name:
> 'virNodeGetMemoryStats'.
> Could it be used to obtain guest memory usage stats?

My bad, there's no 'Get' in the name:

http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainMemoryStats



Daniel
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