I have attempted to use the perf kvm stat -p vmpid command to get the number of instructions executed.
However, I have observed that the command still reports a significant number of instructions even in the VM guest kernel crash state (instruction expects to approach 0). Just like:
3,835.91 msec task-clock:G # 1.000 CPUs utilized
25 context-switches:G # 0.007 K/sec
7 cpu-migrations:G # 0.002 K/sec
0 page-faults:G # 0.000 K/sec
10,879,172,713 cycles:G # 2.836 GHz
905,371,317 instructions:G # 0.08 insn per cycle
150,903,724 branches:G # 39.340 M/sec
23,387 branch-misses:G # 0.02% of all branches
Is there an alternative method to exclusively capture the count of instructions executed internally by the VM?
My virtual machine is based on the qemu/kvm platform.
I appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to accurately measure the executed instructions within the VM from the host side.
PS: The guest kernel crash was manually triggered by me, and the command is
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger