KVM Guest OS Profiling

To configure your target for the KVM guest OS profiling:

Prerequisites:

Copy the /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules files from a guest OS to a host file system to have KVM guest OS symbols resolved.
Copy any guest OS’s modules of interests (vmlinux and any *.ko files) from a guest OS and save them to a [guest] folder on the host file system.

Click the Configure Project button on the VTune Amplifier toolbar.

The Choose Target and Analysis Type window opens with the Analysis Target tab active.
Make sure to select the target system in the left pane and configure the required target type in the right pane. By default, the Launch Application target type is selected.
Select the Analyze KVM guest OS option in the Advanced section and enter paths to guest OS /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules as follows:
Click the Binary/Symbol Search button on the right.

The Binary/Symbol Search dialog box opens.
Add a local path to a [guest] folder where all modules copied from the guest OS reside, for example:

VTune Amplifier supports KVM guest OS profiling only for the custom hardware event-based sampling collection configured to collect Linux Ftrace events.

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