[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-top 0.3.2.7 released

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:05:11AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>Farkas Levente wrote:
> >>>[root at kvm ~]# /usr/bin/virt-top --connect qemu:///system
> >>>libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor:
> >>>virConnectGetHostname
> >>>Fatal error: exception Libvirt.Virterror(3, 0, _, 2, _, 0, _, _, 0, 
> >>>_, _, 0)
> >>>[root at kvm ~]# rpm -q libvirt
> >>>libvirt-0.3.2-2
> >>
> >>You've found a real bug.  Virt-top is not very well tested against 
> >>qemu, or rather that should be not tested at all.  But I'll go and try 
> >>to make it work with qemu now.  Probably take a few hours though ...
> >
> >The patch to fix that particular bug is attached.  There may be other 
> >though, still testing ...
> 
> OK, I'm fairly sure this is the only patch needed.
> 
> I'm going to roll this in to the next (0.3.2.8) release later.
> 
> Libvirt needs works to support block and network stats from QEMU/KVM. 
> Virt-top won't fail because this is missing, it just can't display 
> anything in those columns.  The work as far as I understand it is fairly 
> simple, but also lower down on my list of priorities at the moment.
> 
> Another thing which virt-top uses but which is missing in QEMU/KVM is 
> physical CPU usage and CPU pinning.  I have absolutely no idea if qemu 
> supports this -- I assume it does through ordinary Linux mechanisms such 
> as numactl.  As for KVM, no idea whatsoever.

QEMU is completely single process, even with SMP. So you can pin the QEMU
process to a physical CPU & it'll pin every virtual CPU at once. KVM is
different in that it uses one thread per vCPU, so you can pin individual
threads to physical CPUs.


Dan.
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