X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-mem.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6fbe3c19aab58bcbe36c486f5b07640f2fabeda9;hp=170a8b607e9d1415406da931147ab3ead65327f1;hb=b70c967911e197b74d6d7ad98e3df9240d82572f;hpb=5ce06c3326a2672e82dc656b35eb7a3e6616539a diff --git a/README b/README index 170a8b6..6fbe3c1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ software inside the virtual machine. At the moment we only support virtual machines running Linux kernel >= 2.6, but we expect to support other operating systems in the future. -Most of the commands also offer a CSV (comma-separated values) output -format ('virt-xx --csv'), allowing usage from scripts to update -spreadsheets, databases or integrate with existing monitoring systems -like Nagios. - The commands use libvirt to access the underlying virtualization system, so we support a variety of different systems such as Xen, QEMU and KVM, and more can be added just by adding support to libvirt. @@ -44,14 +39,12 @@ Then: make -The binaries are called things like 'virt-dmesg.opt' and located in -the respective directories, so you could run them by doing: +Then run the virt-mem meta-tool, for example: - ./dmesg/virt-dmesg.opt + ./mem/virt-mem.opt dmesg -All the binaries understand the --help option to provide a summary of -options. All require virtual machines to run against, but most also -offer a test mode (-t option). +(If this binary is linked with the name 'virt-dmesg' then it behaves +in the same way). To install the binaries, man pages and message catalogs, do this as root: