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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:40:58 +0900
From: "Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] RE: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] virt-mem tools version
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Alexey Eremenko
<alexey.eremenko@qumranet.com> wrote:
>
> This seems to be great !
> I think it is similar to OpenVZ concept of controlling VMs from Host, right
> ?
>
> How it works, if it is not installed in guest ?

Basically he does that by inspecting the VM's memory. Something like
the "instrospection" mechanism.

One of the problem is that these tools work via libvirt, so on a VM is
not managed by libvirt, these tools no longer work.

Jun