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

[Adam Carter]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools
> > because its an 'appliance', but it does allow shell access. I assume CPU
> > utilisation shown by top etc is the utilisation of the vCPUs. Is there
> any
> > way to discover or infer host CPU issues?
>
> 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.