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KVM Guest PMU
Summary
Virtualize a performance monitoring unit for the guest's use
Owner
- Name: Justin M. Forbes
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: 2011-01-23
- Percentage of completion: 60%
Detailed Description
Provide a virtualized PMU to guests to allow better profiling using standard tools. This is targeted for the 3.3 kernel upstream and will land in Fedora 17.
Benefit to Fedora
Users with KVM guests will be able to use standard profiling tools which allow for better monitoring and debugging.
Scope
Kernel updates scheduled for mainline 3.3 kernel Qemu userspace updates targeted for the 1.1 release
How To Test
- FIXME(Test plan to be written)