> Is there really a requirement to profile several userspace programs, on 
> several guests, simultaneously? 

Since guests affect each others performance (e.g. one guest can push
the data of another guest out of cache) profiling over guests makes
a lot of sense. Otherwise you cannot easily diagnose any situations
where a guest affects another guests' performance negatively.

>The usual argument for profiling over gus
 If not, passing through the PMU will 
> work best, with the additional advantage that guests will not need 
> modification (so you can run Windows with VTune, for example).

Ideally you would support both.

-Andi

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