Kernel-based virtual machine sensor

The Kernel-based virtual machine sensor uses the libvirt library to discover the KVM supervisor with the list of managed virtual machines.

Sensor name that is used in the GUI and logs

KvmSensor

Prerequisites

The libvirt daemon must be running on a target KVM host.

To avoid duplicates that are created by the Linux® computer system sensor and the KVM sensor, you must install DMI decode on each of guest computer systems.

Model objects created

The sensor creates the following model objects:

  • KVM
  • L2Interface
  • ComputerSystem
  • StoragePool
  • StorageVolume
  • CPU