[virt-tools-list] Fedora 13 beta - virtualization testing - comments/question

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Mike Hinz wrote:
> Interestingly, after doing the latest updates as of 4 May evening, the
> cpu usage is considerably more reasonable.  Now with an idle Win XP VM,
> TOP reports qemu-kvm using slightly < 8% CPU.  Virt-top reports always
> about 1/2 of what TOP reports, in this case slightly < 4%.  Is this
> expected behavior?

virt-top reports the stats directly from libvirt, the same
as 'virsh (domblkstat|domifstat|..)'

> I've installed the libguestfs tools and tried it, but I seem to be doing
> something wrong as attempting 'guestfish --help' as root just gives me
> 'command not found' so I assume that I'm doing something stupid, but
> haven't had time to work on it further.  

guestfish is in its own package (called 'guestfish').

To see what files are in a package, do:

$ rpm -ql libguestfs-tools
/usr/bin/virt-cat
/usr/bin/virt-df
/usr/bin/virt-edit
/usr/bin/virt-inspector
/usr/bin/virt-list-filesystems
/usr/bin/virt-list-partitions
/usr/bin/virt-ls
/usr/bin/virt-make-fs
/usr/bin/virt-rescue
/usr/bin/virt-resize
/usr/bin/virt-tar
/usr/bin/virt-win-reg
[...]

and to find out how to use each tool, read the man page:

$ man virt-df

Rich.

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