Re: [PATCH] Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os statistics fromhost side

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/16/2010 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > The symbol server's client can certainly access the bits through vmchannel.
> > > >          
> > > Ok, that would work i suspect.
> > >
> > > Would be nice to have the symbol server in tools/perf/ and also make it easy
> > > to add it to the initrd via a .config switch or so.
> > >
> > > That would have basically all of the advantages of being built into the kernel
> > > (availability, configurability, transparency, hackability), while having all
> > > the advantages of a user-space approach as well (flexibility, extensibility,
> > > robustness, ease of maintenance, etc.).
> > >        
> > Note, I am not advocating building the vmchannel client into the host
> > kernel. [...]
> >      
> Neither am i. What i suggested was a user-space binary/executable built in
> tools/perf and put into the initrd.
>    

I'm confused - initrd seems to be guest-side.  I was talking about the 
host side.

For the guest, placing the symbol server in tools/ is reasonable.

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