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...perf events but only a few and I need more. I could > > submit patches to add them and I will definitely consider that but in the > > meantime... Looks like you are looking for: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsPerf and http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainGetPerfEvents > > > > What would be the best way to get those PIDs? I tried using the XML file but > > PID is hidden in there too. I took a look at QEMU Machine Protocol. Now I'm > > going to walk /proc and match on guests names but it is not that elegant. > > Any ideas?...

Hello, I cannot find a way to retrieve PIDs of QEMU instances from libvirt domains' IDs (I'm using libvirt C API). I recognize it sounds like a bad idea doing so (and I know PIDs are explicitly made not available, as I gathered from the source code and on your IRC channel) but I need that to use the perf_event_open syscall in order to gather statistics on my QEMU/KVM guests. I also know