[libvirt-users] Determine state of the guest OS/kernel from host

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 06:44:38 UTC 2012


On 03.08.2012 05:46, Harish Patil wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to determine state of the qemu/kvm guest OS
> (rebooting/working/hung etc) from the host. I'm not referring to the
> qemu domain state itself
> 

Well, I don't quite understand how would you do this on real host other
than looking at its screen.
Anyway, libvirt allows mgmt applications to peek into guest memory and
dump it. This is how virt-dmesg works [1]. So maybe it would be handful
example for you.

Michal

1: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-dmesg/

> Thanks in advance.
> 
>>harish
> 
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