On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 03:47:23PM +0200, Tomi wrote: > Hi folks, > > is it possible to monitor and gather statistics in realtime (CPU, > memory, HDD, network, ... - something like dstat) of guest systems > with libvirt through console from host system (KVM based)? If yes, do > those guests need to be created through libvirt? Thanks for your help > and time. look at virDomainBlockStats/virDomainInterfaceStats/virDomainMemoryStats in the library API, as well as the equivalent commands in the virsh command line tool domblkstat/domifstat/dommemstat And sure libvirt must know about the domain to be able to monitor it. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/