monitor guest resource consumption?

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ehall
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Joined: 21. Nov 2010, 00:24
Primary OS: MS Windows other
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monitor guest resource consumption?

Post by ehall »

I've been using vmware products for a while but am looking at virtualbox. Big question for me is if the product has any kind of management interfaces for monitoring guest resource utilization. For example, can I see the percentage of assigned memory in use, or the number of bytes per second being written to disk by a specific guest, and so forth

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azzkikr2001
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Joined: 24. Oct 2010, 11:10
Primary OS: Ubuntu other
VBox Version: OSE Debian
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Re: monitor guest resource consumption?

Post by azzkikr2001 »

Well,
from my understanding you can install snmpd on the host and put queries to the 'VBoxManage metrics'-command.
From there you're free to use for example 'cacti' for graphs.

Has anybody done such a thing?
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