Re: [Libvir] a couple of questions -Newbie

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:38:46PM -0700, Spencer Parker wrote: Disk usage is tricky to monitor from the hypervisor. Have a look around for my 'virt-df' tool (which doesn't actually work at the moment -- it needs a bit of loving). Here are a couple of starting points: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-September/msg00266.html http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-top--devel?f=ba4432dc8714;... In general terms, if you want to monitor things like disk usage, actual memory usage, process lists and so on, you need to have an agent running inside the guest. Collectd might be a good start. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v