I'm currently using VirtualBox on Ubuntu (guest : Windows XP) and I wish to monitor the memory usage of my virtual machine.
To do that, I try :
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VBoxManage metrics setup --period 1 --samples 5 Windows_XP CPU/Load,RAM/Usage
VBoxManage metrics query Windows_XP
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Object Metric Values
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Windows_XP CPU/Load/User 1.00%, 0.50%, 0.50%, 1.01%, 0.50%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/User:avg 0.70%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/User:min 0.50%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/User:max 1.01%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/Kernel 1.00%, 2.00%, 1.50%, 3.03%, 1.50%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/Kernel:avg 1.80%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/Kernel:min 1.00%
Windows_XP CPU/Load/Kernel:max 3.03%
Windows_XP RAM/Usage/Used 621184 kB, 621184 kB, 621184 kB, 621184 kB, 621184 kB
Windows_XP RAM/Usage/Used:avg 621184 kB
Windows_XP RAM/Usage/Used:min 621184 kB
Windows_XP RAM/Usage/Used:max 621184 kB
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/User 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/User:avg 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/User:min 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/User:max 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Kernel 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Kernel:avg 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Kernel:min 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Kernel:max 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Idle 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Idle:avg 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Idle:min 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/CPU/Load/Idle:max 0.00%
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Total 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Total:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Total:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Total:max 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Free 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Free:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Free:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Free:max 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Balloon 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Balloon:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Balloon:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Balloon:max 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared:max 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Cache 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Cache:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Cache:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/RAM/Usage/Cache:max 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/Pagefile/Usage/Total 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB, 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/Pagefile/Usage/Total:avg 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/Pagefile/Usage/Total:min 0 kB
Windows_XP Guest/Pagefile/Usage/Total:max 0 kB
- What's the difference between "RAM/Usage" and "Guest/RAM/Usage"? I queried "Windows_XP" (the guest) and not "host" so I don't think "Guest/RAM/..." is for the guest and "RAM/..." for the host... Am I wrong?
Why values of Guest are 0 each time?
What does "RAM/Usage/Used" represent? I gave 512MB of memory to this VM so I don't understand these results...
