topic Katya - it didn't work. Here in Analyzers

Installing VTune on a VM

momo_m_ — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:21:27 GMT

I am trying to get VTune installed in a virtual environ. Specifically, an Amazon EC2 instance running ubuntu. I understand not all hardware counters are exposed, so functionality may be limited (Per Thomas Wilham's response). But all I need to get is a system wide hotspot (which process->function takes most time). I tried to install the drivers and have the following error throw up.

sudo ./insmod-sep3 -r -g users

ERROR: XEN dom0 is not supported ... exiting.

grep: /proc/xen/capabilities: No such file or directory

So the question is can Vtune be run in such an environment at all ? I would imagine there must be a way to just get function hotspots.

VTune Amplifier XE 2016

David_A_Intel1 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:43:47 GMT

VTune Amplifier XE 2016 Update 2 requirements (in Release Notes) state:

XEN 4.0 and higher for User Domain (domU)'

What version of XEN are you trying to use?

I am not 100% sure my

momo_m_ — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:51:34 GMT

I am not 100% sure my commands are right. But though there is an error, from following it looks like 4.2 ?

sudo xm info
ERROR: Can't find version 4.2 of xen utils, bailing out!
sudo xl info
ERROR: Can't find version 4.2 of xen utils, bailing out!

Hello,

Ekaterina_L_Intel — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:28:10 GMT

Hello,

For hardware EBS analysis on VMs specified in Release Notes - you don't need sampling driver registration, analysis runs a driverless sampling collection via Linux Perf* tool.

Can you please try to run a simple EBS analysis and see if it works?

>amplxe-cl -c advanced-hotspots -d 5

If it doesn't work - please provide output of below command:

>amplxe-runss --context-value-list

Regards, Katya

Katya - it didn't work. Here

momo_m_ — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:11:07 GMT

Katya - it didn't work. Here's the log

targetOS: Linux
OS: Linux
isPtraceScopeLimited: true
isTSXAvailable: false
isHTEnabled: true
isSGXAvailable: false
LinuxRelease: 3.13.0-74-generic
Hypervisor: XenVMMXenVMM
isPtraceAvailable: true
areGpuHardwareMetricsAvailable: UnsupportedInterfaceVersion
ETW: NA
isEtwDxSupported: no
isEtwCLRSupported: no
isPowerAnalysisAvailable: PlatformError
isPowerKernelStacksAvailable: false
isFtraceAvailable: notAccesible
isMdfEtwAvailable: false
isCSwitchAvailable: no
isGpuBusynessAvailable: unsupportedHardware
isGpuBusynessDetailsAvailable: unsupportedHardware
isGpuWaitAvailable: no
isFunctionTracingAvailable: no
isIowaitTracingAvailable: no
isVSyncAvailable: no
isSEPDriverAvailable: false
platformType: 99
CPU_NAME: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5/E7 v3 processor
PMU: haswell_server
referenceFrequency: 2400000000
isVTSSPPDriverAvailable: false
isNMIWatchDogTimerRunning: true
LinuxPerfCredentials: Kernel
LinuxPerfCapabilities: breakpoint:raw;software:raw;tracepoint:raw
LinuxPerfStackCapabilities: fp,dwarf
isTPSSAvailable: true
isPytraceAvailable: true
isGENDebugInfoAvailable: false

------------Error below during the run-------------------
amplxe: Error: Cannot enable Hardware Event-based Sampling: problem with the driver (sep*/sepdrv*). Check that the driver is running and the driver group is in the current user group list. See "Building and Managing the Sampling Driver" help topic for further details.
amplxe: Error: Cannot enable advanced capabilities for Hardware Event-based Sampling: problem with the driver (vtss/vtsspp). Check that the driver is running and the driver group is in the current user group list. See "Building and Managing the Sampling Driver" help topic for further details.

Hello, Dom0 is not supported

Alexander_K_Intel4 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:10:08 GMT

Hello, Dom0 is not supported - PMU virtualization is currently under construction there.

Only User Domains (DomU) can be profiled by VTune for now.

Regards, Alex