[Users] Statistics of virtual machines

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/22/2012 10:00 AM, Gal Hammer wrote:
> On 21/02/2012 22:41, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/21/2012 07:41 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Gal Hammer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The ovirt-guest-agent returns "free" memory as the sum of three fields
>>>>> (free memory, buffers and cache). The logic behind this is because
>>>>> linux will reduce the memory used for buffers and cache as needed. So
>>>>> we can assume this is a "free" memory.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone built a rpm repo with common RPMs, only one I see is fc16.
>
> The ovirt-guest-agent can probably build and used only on fc16. This is
> due the changes in the file system layout (/run is tmpfs for example)
> and using systemd and not initd.

nathan - if you make it work, feel free to send patches making it 
support both platforms (or any other distro)

>
>>> do you mean noarch?
>
> Although the agent is written in python and could have been noarch it is
> not possible because of its sub-packages. The sub-packages (gdm/kdm
> plug-ins and a pam module) are written in C.
>
>> I found a older SRPM ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.0-2.1.src.rpm and was able to
>> compile it for Centos 6.2. Is there anyting special you need to do to
>> set it up? Right now I get:
>>
>> MainThread::INFO::2012-02-21
>> 20:28:35,431::ovirt-guest-agent::25::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
>> MainThread::ERROR::2012-02-21
>> 20:28:35,450::ovirt-guest-agent::57::root::Unhandled exception in oVirt
>> guest agent!
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 55, in
>> <module>
>> agent.run()
>> File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 33, in run
>> file(AGENT_PIDFILE, "w").write("%s\n" % (os.getpid()))
>> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/var/run/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.pid'
>
> Is the directory /var/run/ovirt-guest-agent exists and does the
> rhevagent user have a write permissions on it?
>
> Gal.