On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 10:36 -0700, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/18/2011 09:29 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > > > What can you do with it? > > > > > > > I was actually planning on submitting another patch that would add > > something similar into virtio-net. My plan was to enable collecting > > statistics regarding memory, network and disk usage in a simple manner > > without accessing guests. > > > > How can this be used? my vision behind it was automation of kernel > > testing and benchmarking. > > > > This is something that can be used by very few people, but everyone has > to carry it. It's more efficient to add statistics support to your > automation framework (involving the guest). >
That was just one example of many possibilities. However, if you feel this can't be used within monitoring or management platforms anyhow then I'm ok with dropping it. -- Sasha. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
