[virt-tools-list] Obtaining usable output from virDomainMemoryStats()

[Tadej Janež]

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 14:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: 
> > 
> > Virt-manager will then have cater for both cases, when libvirt can
> > provide this info via QMP query commands and when it can't.
> 
> virt-manager doesn't care about the difference.  The libvirt API will
> either have information to provide (super-old qemu that blocked on HMP,
> or modern API that uses new QMP) or it won't (intermediate qemu that
> ditched the info to avoid blocking).  All you have to do is upgrade qemu
> and libvirt, and virt-manager will magically start providing stats again.

Yes, I agree with you that virt-manager won't care about the difference.
However, currently virt-manager doesn't even use the
virDomainMemoryStats() function. To obtain the memory stats, it uses the
virDomainGetInfo() function (see:
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/tree/virtManager/domain.py#n1716
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/tree/virtManager/domain.py#n1294),
which only reports the current VM memory allocation.

This issue is being tracked at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878425

> Yes, please - having it filed by you (as opposed to me) will give it
> some more weight when Red Hat evaluates which bugs to fix for RHEL.

No problem, filed a new bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963488

Best regards,
Tadej