Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt and guest processes
On 04/20/2015 07:32 PM, hanyandong wrote:
[please don't top-post on technical lists]
As I know, you can use Libvmi API to access the memory of VM and
then walk through the double-linked list of process to reconstruct the process list. it is
easy, and libvmi has provide the example
Maybe so, but that requires very intimate knowledge of the exact kernel
running in the guest, and could be rather fragile; especially if you are
not freezing the guest while snooping memory. Adding a guest-agent
command would probably be more portable across a wider range of guests.
> No, I don't think there's a way. Problem is, libvirt
views guest
> internals private to the guest. Having said that, I don't think there
> ever will be an API for that. Nor qemu-ga has an API for executing an
> arbitrary shell commands.
There have been proposals on the qemu list for adding such a qemu-ga
command, although it hasn't been reviewed for inclusion yet.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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