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Is there any way I can measure CPU, RAM, DISK IO & other stats of Guest machine from any VirtualBox API? Means, the actual hardware stats.
I run "top" in my Ubuntu guests to read stats in real-time, but is there any other VBox API / Extensions which shows any fancy charts / line graphs or any CSV also will help to analyze.
Mital R
Posted 2013-04-07T17:59:35.093
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And resource usage reports you get from within the VMs is virtual... The host will show you how much o tthe real resources are being used by the VMs. What is your actual goal here? There are plenty of network/server monitoring programs out there, why not use one of them? Also, you ask for the API, are you open to programming your own interface? If you're just looking for a software recommendation to monitor your VMs, then this may be closed as off-topic. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-04-07T19:34:14.083
@techie007, yes I am open to do programming/scripting if needed, as current Virtualbox host is showing very generic details not more than Storage & Network statistics, the more I need is CPU & RAM utilization to scale accordingly.
I tried process explorer on Windows host to measure these param, but did not help as it is showing "VirtualBox.exe" stats, but not individual guests OS.
I have searched a lot & I am not looking for a software, as this is to do something inside of VBox apis & not in the guest OS. – Mital R – 2013-04-08T04:56:47.087