Hive Archive http://hivearchive.com Matt Michie's Musings Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:10:02 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 VMWare VProbes (dtrace for all) http://hivearchive.com/2007/09/17/vmware-vprobes-dtrace-for-all/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:07:23 PDT http://hivearchive.com/2007/09/17/vmware-vprobes-dtrace-for-all/ VMWare VProbes (dtrace for all) VMWare vprobes:
VProbes attempts to provide a set of tools for answering the question, "What the heck is this computer doing?" It's an open-ended question, so vprobes is accordingly open-ended, as well. In its current form, it provides an interactive, safe way of instrumenting a running VM at any level: from user-level processes down to the kernel, and even into VMware's VMM and hypervisor, if need be.

First, we are aiming to provide a Dtrace-like tool for other commercially important operating systems than Solaris. Second, VProbes can combine with other virtualization-based techniques in powerful ways. For example, VProbes and deterministic replay combine to make the most potent tool that I'm aware of for debugging intermittent performance anomalies.

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