OracleVM


CPU pinning overview directly from physical server using OracleVM / Xen

When using Oracle VM, there is the the possibility to use the ‘ovm_vmcontrol’ tool to check and set the CPU Pinning. However the output is not the best for a overview picture.

Today I just wrote a short script to print this overview, which can be run directly on the Physical Server which we are interested at:

[root@lxsrv0001 ~]# for vm in $(xm vcpu-list | egrep '^000' | cut -c1-32 | uniq); do 
  echo "${vm} - $(grep OVM_simple_name /OVS/Repositories/*/VirtualMachines/${vm}/vm.cfg | cut -d'=' -f2) - $(xm vcpu-list | grep -c ${vm}) CPUs - Pin to $(xm vcpu-list | grep -m1 ${vm} | rev | cut -d' ' -f1 | rev)"; 
done

The output will be something like

0004fb000006000031f0e14272fa90d1 - 'vmsrv01' - 6 CPUs - Pin to 0-5
0004fb0000060000b7fcb78fa7888d37 - 'vmsrv03' - 6 CPUs - Pin to 0-5
0004fb00000600004568a88b95d9ea3f - 'vmsrv05' - 4 CPUs - Pin to 6-10
0004fb00000600004ae9d1f0c8e4b8fb - 'vmsrv07' - 2 CPUs - Pin to 11-12

This can always be useful when we need to fast check the CPU pinning for the whole Physical Server.