-ocaml-libvirt
+virt-top
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-Copyright (C) 2007 Richard W.M. Jones, Red Hat Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Richard W.M. Jones, Red Hat Inc.
+http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/
http://libvirt.org/ocaml/
http://libvirt.org/
-This is a complete set of OCaml bindings around libvirt, exposing all
-known functionality to OCaml programs.
+virt-top is a top-like utility for showing stats of virtualized
+domains. Many keys and command line options are the same as for
+ordinary top.
+
+It uses libvirt so it capable of showing stats across a variety of
+different virtualization systems.
Requirements
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-To build the bindings and mlvirsh (required):
-
- GNU make, gcc
- libvirt >= 0.2.1 (from http://libvirt.org/,
- get the latest version if you can)
- ocaml >= 3.08 (from http://caml.inria.fr/)
- findlib (from http://www.ocaml-programming.de/packages/)
- Extlib (from http://ocaml-lib.sourceforge.net/)
-
-To build the OCaml interface documentation (optional):
-
- ocamldoc (part of OCaml itself)
-
-To build virt-top (optional):
-
- ocaml-curses (from http://www.nongnu.org/ocaml-tmk/)
- xml-light (from http://tech.motion-twin.com/doc/xml-light/)
- ocaml CSV library (from http://merjis.com/developers/csv)
- ocaml-calendar (http://www.lri.fr/~signoles/prog.en.html)
-
- [Only ocaml-curses is required for building virt-top. The other
- packages are not required, but you will get reduced functionality].
-
-To build mlvirtmanager (optional):
-
- GTK2 (from http://gtk.org/)
- lablgtk2 (from http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/lsl/lablgtk.html)
-
-To build the manpages (optional):
-
- perldoc (part of Perl)
-
-OCaml packages are available for Fedora 7 and above (ocaml,
-ocaml-findlib, ocaml-findlib-devel, ocaml-ocamldoc, ocaml-extlib,
-ocaml-extlib-devel, ocaml-lablgtk, ocaml-lablgtk-devel, ocaml-curses,
-ocaml-xml-light, ocaml-csv).
+OCaml >= 3.11.0
+ocaml-libvirt >= 0.6.1.1 (for virDomainGetCPUStats support)
+OCaml extlib
+OCaml curses
- http://www.annexia.org/tmp/ocaml/
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/OCaml
-
-Debian/Ubuntu have all the packages you require.
+Optional:
+OCaml gettext
+OCaml xml-light
+OCaml CSV
+OCaml Calendar, version 2 is preferred
+perldoc
+msgfmt
Building
./configure # Checks that you have all the required bits.
- make all # Builds the bytecode version of libs/programs.
- make opt # Builds the native code version of libs/programs.
-
- make install # Install in OCaml directory, and the binaries
- # in $prefix/bin.
-
- make doc # Build HTML documentation in html/ subdirectory.
-
-Then have a look at the programs 'mlvirsh.opt' and 'mlvirtmanager.opt'.
-
-Note: If you want to run the programs without first installing, you
-may need to set your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable so it
-contains the build directory. eg:
-
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libvirt/ mlvirsh/mlvirsh.opt
-
-
-mlvirsh
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-
-'mlvirsh' is an almost complete reimplementation of virsh, which is
-mostly command compatible (there are a very few commands missing, and
-some commands have a slightly different syntax, but broadly speaking
-they are equivalent programs except that one is written in C and the
-other in OCaml).
-
-At the time of writing:
-
- wc -c wc -l
-
- virsh 126,056 4,641
- mlvirsh 19,427 598
-
- % size 15% 13%
-
-
-mlvirtmanager
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-
-'mlvirtmanager' is a demonstration implementation of virt-manager in
-OCaml. It is not feature-complete by any means, but does allow you to
-show the running domains and start and stop defined domains. The main
-functionality _missing_ is the ability to define new virtual machines,
-change the resources allocated to domains, or show the machine
-console.
-
-
-Programming
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-
-The interface is described in 'libvirt.mli'. The main modules are
-Libvirt.Connect, Libvirt.Domain and Libvirt.Network, corresponding
-respectively to the virConnect*, virDomain*, and virNetwork*
-functions. For brevity I usually rename these modules like this:
-
- module C = Libvirt.Connect
- module D = Libvirt.Domain
- module N = Libvirt.Network
-
-To get a connection handle, do:
-
- let name = "xen:///"
- let conn = C.connect ~name ()
-
-To list domains, do:
-
- let n = C.num_of_domains conn
- let ids = C.list_domains conn n
- let domains = Array.map (D.lookup_by_id conn) ids
- let () =
- Array.iter (
- fun dom ->
- printf "%5d %s\n" (D.get_id dom) (D.get_name dom)
- ) domains
-
-(See also the program list_domains.ml).
-
-For documentation on these bindings, read libvirt.mli and/or 'make
-doc' and browse the HTML documentation in the html/ subdirectory.
-
-For documentation on libvirt itself, see http://libvirt.org/html/
-
-
-Subdirectories
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+ make all # Builds the bytecode version of the program.
+ make opt # Builds the native code version of the program.
-libvirt/ The OCaml bindings.
-examples/ Some example programs using the bindings.
-mlvirsh/ 'mlvirsh' command line tool.
-mlvirtmanager/ 'mlvirtmanager' graphical tool.
-virt-top/ 'virt-top' tool.
+Then have a look at the program 'virt-top/virt-top.opt'.