I am running VTune Amplifier XE 2017 Update 1 on a Broadwell system (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2698 v4).
I am able to collect hardware counters using:
amplxe-cl -collect-with runsa -knob event-config=$(cat counters.csv) -data-limit=2500 -duration=420 -target-duration-type=medium -r $outdir
where counters.csv is a list of custom hardware counters.
However, when I start a KVM guest (using virsh start <domain>), the same command line stops working. Specifically,
amplxe-cl -collect-with runsa -knob event-config=?
lists no events at all.
Once I shutdown the guest with "virsh destroy" vtune begins to work normally, as before.
Please note that I am NOT trying to run vtune inside the virtual machine - I am still running it on the host. My intention is to collect system wide hardware counters when workloads are running inside the guest.
Could someone please suggest a solution to this issue?
Thanks
Vidya
