Virt-mem

This is highly experimental, alpha-quality software. Please read the FAQ for an up to date list of known problems and issues.

These are a collection of monitoring and management tools for virtual machines.

Commands we support at the moment include:

virt-uname

'uname' command, shows OS version, architecture, etc.

virt-dmesg

'dmesg' command, shows kernel messages

virt-ps

'ps' command, shows process list

virt-ifconfig

'ifconfig' command, shows network interfaces

The general idea is that they allow you to monitor virtual machines without needing to log in to the machine itself or install any extra 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.

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.

Community, discussions, feedback

Virt-mem is actively developed by Red Hat and the community. If you have questions, problems, patches or feedback on virt-mem then go to the et-mgmt-tools mailing list, or hop over to our IRC channel #virt on OFTC.

Source and binaries

Source tarballs and various binaries for virt-mem.

To access the source repository:

hg clone http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-mem--devel

The license is the GNU General Public License, version 2 or any later version (GPLv2+).

See bug 450713 for an experimental Fedora package.

Internal documentation

Read the internal / library documentation

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