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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Counting VCPU instructions
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:30:10 +0200
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Abhishek Saksena wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Is ther a way to count how many instruction VCPU (KVM) executed? Say
> between between two IO/mmio operations.
> Is there any KVM API for this?
>
>   

While it's possible in theory using the hardware performance counters, 
no one has implemented this.

> Other thing which I am not sure how KVM kerenel is synconrinized with
> Qemu kernel? Can somebody explain this?
>   

What's the qemu kernel?

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