[libvirt-users] memoryStats question

[Martin Kletzander]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 04:31:46PM +0300, Gleb Voronich wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to get memory usage statistic inside a guest machine using
>virDomainMemoryStats function at libvirt.
>According to
>http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainMemoryStatTags the
>structure could have a lot of useful memory statistic but the amount of
>parameters depends on the hypervisor and the driver.
>However using KVM I'm able to get VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_ACTUAL_BALLOON
>and VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_RSS only.
>

QEMU/KVM only supports these two IIRC.

>Am I right it is not possible to get additional info such as used/unused
>memory inside a guest machine in case of KVM?
>

Yes.  Actually reporting some data from *inside* the domain is not
what libvirt aims to provide.

Martin
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