Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

[Ashley Dixon]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:21:06PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > Do you mean that you want to monitor the host system from the guest? Can you
> > not just SSH into the host from the guest? You can also infer CPU usage from
> > the /proc/stat file on the host system, if you can share files over NFS or
> > some other file-sharing means.
>
> I have ssh access (including root) to the guest but no access to the host.

Do you not even have non-privileged access to the host?  If you can't access the
host _at all_, and you can't petition the  host  owner  to  give  guest  systems
access to files like /proc/stat, there isn't really any method of monitoring it.

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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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