[libvirt] Dom0 Interface stats with virDomainInterfaceStats

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 22 11:42:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:10:22AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:53:31AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > Would it be possible to enable fetch of the interface stats of the dom0 
> > via the API?
> 
>   It sounds a bit Xen specific, but I see no reason why this should not be
> allowed.

I disagree - Dom0 is a concept only present in a subset of hypervisors.
What Stefan is really asking for is ability to get stats of devices in
the host OS. This kind of thing belongs in a separate API such as 
virNodeInterfaceStats so it is usable across all our drivers.

Dan.
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