[libvirt-users] Check memory inside a container

Rudy Godoy rudy at stone-head.org
Wed Mar 13 13:09:50 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 06:14:55PM +0530, Saurabh Deochake wrote:
> Hi all,
> 

Hi,


> I'm new to LXC and libvirt. I have created a LXC container using libvirt.
> In domain XML file I have mentioned "memory" and "current memory" as 256
> MB.
> 
> Now I want to check the memory inside the container, but whenever I run top
> command or try to cat /proc/meminfo, it shows host machine's memory which
> is 3GB.
> 
> So is there any command by which I can check containers memory?
> 

You could use virsh commands such as dominfo or memtune.

virsh --connect lxc:// dominfo <vm-id>

regards,
Rudy

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