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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] How to get the guest physical memory
 usage from host?
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On 2014/12/22 16:41, Andrey Korolyov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Zhang Haoyu <zhhy.zhanghaoyu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How to get the guest physical memory usage from host?
>> I don't want to introduce a guest-agent to get the info.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zhang Haoyu
>>
> 
> There`s probably one approach, simular to (currently abandoned)
> virt-dmesg, via peeking to the guest memory directly. What are reasons
> for not leaving this task to agent, as it looks much simpler?
> 
In some cases, we are not permitted to install anything in customer's guest environment.

Thanks,
Zhang Haoyu