[libvirt-users] No way to obtain guest's cpu and mem usage?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:21:18AM +0200, RaSca wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm using the PHP API to make a web interface interact with the virtual
> machines installed on some hypervisor.
> Everything is fine, but I would like to find a way to get the guest's
> cpu and mem usage, so that it should be possible to make some rrd
> graphs. I didn't find out anything and also it seems looking around that
> there is no way to obtain those data.
> 
> What is strange for me is that programs like virt-top are showing
> exactly what I'm looking for. Can anyone help me to find out a way to
> retrieve those statistics?

virt-top mostly uses the virDomainGetInfo()  API to get this data.

Regards,
Daniel
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