kvmstat

Description

kvmstat shows you neat usage report of your KVM guests.

Sample output

ID    NAME          RUNNING VCPU    RAM       AUTOSTART
1     xxxxxxxx         True  4       4096 MB     True
2     xxxxxxxxxx       True  4      20480 MB     True
3     xxxxx            True  4      17408 MB     True
4     xxxxxxxxxx01     True  4       6144 MB     True
5     xxxxxxxxxx02     True  4       6144 MB     True
6     xxxxxx           True  2       2048 MB     True
7     xxxxxxxxxx00     True  4       6144 MB     True
-1    xxx             False  4      10240 MB    False

Allocated VCPUs: 30 / 24 (overcommitment: 6)
Allocated RAM: 72704 / 64403 (overcommitment: 8301 MB)

Installation on RHEL6 boxes

• Enable Vortex RPM repository (yum install -y http://vortex-rpm.org/el6/noarch/vortex-release-6-1.vortex.el6.noarch.rpm)
• yum install kvmstat

Dependencies

• Python 2.6
• libvirt-python
• libvirtd

Usage

Simply run it. If you will pass -a as an argument, all guests (including stopped ones) will be shown.