KVMSTAT(1) User Commands KVMSTAT(1)

NAME

kvmstat - report KVM statistics

SYNOPSIS

kvmstat [interval [count]]

DESCRIPTION

kvmstat reports the activity of running KVM virtual machines and their exit
activity, injected interrupts, emulations, and more, on a per virtual CPU
basis.

kvmstat should be used when trying to get a rough sense of guest activity
from the hypervisor's perspective, and allows one to understand from a low-
level perspective, what kind of activity is going on inside of the virtual
machine. In addition, kvmstat is useful for diagnosing reports of
pathological or faulty behavior inside of guests. While there is no
expected range of values for the fields displayed as that varies with the
use of virtual machines, if all of the virtual CPUs for a given virtual
machine are consistently zero, then that may indicate that a problem has
occurred, for example, a panic inside of the guest or a bug in the
hypervisor.

If no operands are specified, then kvmstat will display statistics every
second until the program is terminated.

Output Fields

Every interval kvmstat will report data with the following fields:

pid Identifier of the process controlling the virtual CPU.

vcpu Virtual CPU identifier relative to its virtual machine.

exits Count of all virtual machine exits for the virtual CPU over
interval.

haltx Count of virtual machine exits due to the guest executing the HLT
instruction for the virtual CPU over interval.

irqx Count of virtual machine exits due to a pending external interrupt
arriving on the physical CPU that the virtual CPU was actively
running on over interval.

irqwx Count of virtual machine exits due to an open interrupt window on
the virtual CPU over interval.

iox Count of virtual machine exits due to the execution of an I/O
instruction, such as inb, on the virtual CPU over interval.

mmiox Count of virtual machine exits due to performing memory mapped I/O
on the virtual CPU over interval.

irqs Count of interrupts injected into the virtual CPU over interval.

emul Count of instructions the hypervisor had to emulate on behalf of
the guest virtual CPU over interval.

eptv Count of extended page table violations serviced on the virtual CPU
over interval.

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

count
Specifies the number of times that the statistics are repeated. If
not specified, kvmstat will continue until it is terminated.

interval
Specifies the number of seconds between reports of statistics. If
not specified, reports are generated every second.

STABILITY

The arguments are committed, while the output format is Not an interface.

SEE ALSO

attributes(7), iostat(8), mpstat(8)

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