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RE: [Xen-devel] Xenoprofile in DomU!
 
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 Xenoprofile can only be run from dom0.  
Profiling from domU would require virtualizing the performance 
counters which are not available in Xen today. 
You can profile a domU from dom0 using two models: active or 
passive mode. 
I strongly recommend that you use passive mode if you can, since 
it is much easier to configure and use 
The main limitation of passive domain profiling is that you cannot separate application samples, although it still provide you detailed samples for 
kernel and hypervisor samples. The 
user level samples are all groupped into a single bin. If you really want a detailed profile of 
your user level code then you need to use active mode. The 
tutorial explains how to do that. 
  
In any 
case you have to start Oprofile from dom0 and specify which domains you want to 
profile. 
  
The 
steps a and b that you mention are just needed if you are usin active mode. In 
this mode you need to have the uncompressed kernel and xen images available in 
the domU (e.g. vmlinux-syms-2.6.8.18-xenU, 
xen-syms-3.4-unstable). 
  
Regards 
  
Renato 
  
  
  Dear All,    I am trying to run Xenoprofile in DomU 
  domain. I have been able to get the xenoprofile working for Dom0 but havent 
  got luck yet to make it work for domU(s). I am working on AMD Opetron 64 bit 
  processor with Xen3.4 on rhel5.2 kernel. I am facing following 
  difficulties:   1. I am using the images from jailtime.org, 
  have tried ubuntu-8 and centos5.2 images. Ubuntu works fine but centos starts 
  as a readonly filesystem. I tried to mount it as r/w but it didnt worked. I 
  have also tried to create a clone domU by copying files and folders from dom0 
  kernel (rhel5.2), but it gives me kernel panic when booting up, for this 
  exercise I followed the step from webpage http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Building_a_Xen_Virtual_Guest_Filesystem_on_a_Disk_Image_%28Cloning_Host_System%29. 
     2. I am not able to comprehend fully, these two steps given in 
  Xenoprofile tutorial (http://www.xen.org/files/summit_3/xenoprof_tutorial.pdf): 
  a. Copy Xen and kernel images (in /boot) to domU 
  file system. b. Copy domU 
  modules (in /lib/modules) to domU file 
  system   Please help me if 
  someone has any suggestion regarding above mentioned points. 
     Thanks! Ata
  
   
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