I'm pleased to announce the first release of virt-top, which is a top-like utility for displaying virtualization stats. It aims to look and feel very much like regular 'top', so as to be as familiar as possible for systems administrators. You can also use it as a pleasant replacement for xentop. It uses libvirt, so can display stats across a variety of different hypervisors and virtualization systems (not just Xen, although that is where the testing has gone so far). http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ The license is a combination of LGPL (for the library) and GPL (for the virt-top program). Current status -------------- You can view domains and use familiar keys like 'P'/'M'/... to sort by processor/memory/..., and 'd'/'s' to set the delay between updates. Also some common top command-line options are implemented. The man page is here: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ virt-top/virt-top.txt There are a variety of source and binary RPMs available for Fedora users. I don't yet have a working Debian/Ubuntu package, but will have a go at making one tomorrow. The next thing I'll be working on is showing virtual and physical CPU usage of guests. After that I'm hoping to discuss extensions to libvirt to make other interesting statistics available to virt- top, in particular disk and network I/O stats. There are a few data collection artifacts which need to be investigated. In particular, %CPU sometimes goes over 100%. Obviously accurate data collection is an important goal for this tool. Memory usage is good: typical 'RES' (in regular top) for virt-top is just under 2.5 MB, and I've had it running for hours at a time without memory usage increasing, which seems to indicate that there aren't any major memory leaks. Development ----------- The program is currently very small: exactly 500 lines of code! If you want to dive in and send me patches they are most welcome, but remember that I'm trying to make this utility act as much like 'top' as possible, so if 'top' does it in a particular way, then I'd prefer virt-top to do the same thing. (May not apply to obscure top functionality, if top does something silly). If you're a systems administrator, not a programmer, and you'd like virt-top to have some particular feature, then please let me know, and I will be happy to review it and code it for you. Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat - http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 <virt-top.png> -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

That's a really strange error. I just downloaded and compiled 0.3.1 here with no problem, so it may be something to do with the version of gnutls you are using.

Can you send me the complete output of ./configure and make please.

If you're on x86-64 then the binary (http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ virt-top/virt-top-0.3.1.2-1.fc8.x86_64.rpm) should just work for you. If you're on another arch, or if it doesn't work, then I can install RHEL 4 ES here and guide you through the build process - I've only tried it on RHEL 5 / F7 myself.

Hi Richard, On 07.08.2007, at 10:40, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > That's a really strange error. I just downloaded and compiled 0.3.1 > here with no problem, so it may be something to do with the version of > gnutls you are using. I have installed these rpm packages: gnutls-devel-1.0.20-3.2.3 gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.3 In consideration of the version Daniel is using, these ones are fairly old, but the latest available for my distribution (Scientific Linux) > Can you send me the complete output of ./configure and make please. Sure! Please find them attached to this mail.

Hi Richard, I haven't followed development of libvirt for a while since it was unuseable for our monitoring due to the inaccurate measuring of cpu%. At that time I was happy to have a working lib in version 0.1.9. When you came up with vir-top, I wanted to give it a try. But therefore at least version 0.3.1 of libvirt is needed. So I had to compile the library again and run in the following error during make: <error> remote_internal.c: At top level: remote_internal.c:969: warning: unused parameter 'sock' make[2]: *** [libvirt_la-remote_internal.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/libvirt-0.3.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/libvirt-0.3.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 </error>

I tried to configure without remote, but had no luck. Could you be so nice and tell me which requesitions my systems has to fulfill that I can successfully compile libvirt?

By the way. I'm using a RHES 4.x based distribution, Xen 3.0.3 and kernel 2.6.18 in dom0. I have only Xen installed an only use libvirt on top of Xen.