Is it possible to show System Monitor graphs or something on the Virt-Manager VM window for VMs that are passedthough to the GPU?

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Instead of this:

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Would it be possible to have a terminal output or system monitor graph that’ll monitor VM’s performance?

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Do you have a “view” menu for the machine?
view->details->performance gives some output

(view is on the top of my page, which brings down a menu where I can switch to console etc.
Clicking Details is where i can change hardware and setups etc. On the left, is a Performance tab. this gives some graphs…)

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Oh. I’m blind. I thought the details section was just for configuration.

Thanks!!

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One thing I found odd was that the RAM portion isn’t updating, unlike the rest of the graph.

And would it be possible to add my GPU that was passed through?

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Last I looked, the VM’s [edit: they are displayed in VMM as if they…] used all the allocated ram, so it only really showed the CPU usage.
I haven’t seen a GPU output, as it is passed through.

Perhaps you might Google for remote windows monitoring software? And get all the info from within the VM?

I’m afraid I didn’t need a very granular display myself, so didn’t research into what is possible

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What are you trying to accomplish? Viewing the stats of your host system on the guest?
If both are Linux you could run an X11 server on your host system (if you aren’t already), connect via ssh over a internal network bridge and then pipe the output to your guest. This way it shows the application window like it is running locally, but it reads the stats from the host.

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This is for my Windows VM

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CPU, RAM, Network and Disk (normally) go through the host, so the host can measure them and give you graphs. When doing GPU passthrough the host has no communication with the GPU, so it can’t give you any GPU stats.

To get GPU stats you’ll need to run a program like hwinfo64 inside your VM. This can also get basic CPU and RAM stats as well.

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You probably want to install a monitoring software, like prometheus+grafana or zabbix in a VM or container (or even on your host) and an agent on the VM (prometheus-windows-node-exporter or zabbix-agent). Not sure which agent would export the GPU stats though, you’ll have to look that up.