2 Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat Inc.
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5 These are a collection of monitoring and management tools for virtual
8 Commands we support at the moment include:
10 virt-uname 'uname' command, shows OS version, architecture, etc.
11 virt-dmesg 'dmesg' command, shows kernel messages
12 virt-ps 'ps' command, shows process list
13 virt-ifconfig 'ifconfig' command, shows network interfaces, addresses, etc.
15 The general idea is that they allow you to monitor virtual machines
16 without needing to log in to the machine itself or install any extra
17 software inside the virtual machine. At the moment we only support
18 virtual machines running Linux kernel >= 2.6, but we expect to support
19 other operating systems in the future.
21 The commands use libvirt to access the underlying virtualization
22 system, so we support a variety of different systems such as Xen, QEMU
23 and KVM, and more can be added just by adding support to libvirt.
25 THIS IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL, ALPHA-QUALITY SOFTWARE. PLEASE READ THE FAQ:
26 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
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32 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/
34 We supply the latest source and binaries at the above site.
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40 Run ./configure and look at the output for any missing packages.
46 Then run the virt-mem meta-tool, for example:
48 ./mem/virt-mem.opt dmesg
50 (If this binary is linked with the name 'virt-dmesg' then it behaves
53 To install the binaries, man pages and message catalogs, do this as