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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:21:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCGCnhezL5YvjqbPZ08rrQK1J0keJuHCSUFnSR8NbrUhtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200727033401.xr4dhyyx32zxjeer@ad-gentoo-main>

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon <ash@suugaku.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools
> > because its an 'appliance', but it does allow shell access. I assume CPU
> > utilisation shown by top etc is the utilisation of the vCPUs. Is there
> any
> > way to discover or infer host CPU issues?
>
> Do you mean that you want to monitor the host system from the guest? Can
> you not
> just SSH into the host from the guest?  You can also infer CPU  usage
> from  the
> /proc/stat file on the host system, if you can share  files  over  NFS
> or  some
> other file-sharing means.
>

I have ssh access (including root) to the guest but no access to the host.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27  3:23 [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained? Adam Carter
2020-07-27  3:34 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-27  4:21   ` Adam Carter [this message]
2020-07-27  4:36     ` Ashley Dixon
2020-07-27 15:01     ` Sid Spry
2020-07-28  2:24       ` Adam Carter
2020-07-28 16:56         ` Sid Spry
2020-07-30  0:51           ` Adam Carter
2020-07-30 19:36             ` Jeremi Piotrowski

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