Bug 453344

Summary:	xenperf reports "Error getting number of perf counters: 38 (Function not implemented)"
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Andreas Piesk <a.piesk>
Component:	kernel-xen	Assignee:	Markus Armbruster <armbru>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version:	5.2	CC:	xen-maint
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Description Andreas Piesk 2008-06-29 22:19:15 UTC

Description of problem:

xenperf fails with:
Error getting number of perf counters: 38 (Function not implemented)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xen-3.0.3-64.el5_2.1

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:

just start xenperf

Comment 1 Markus Armbruster 2008-07-03 20:33:04 UTC

xenperf fails because the hypervisor is not built with performance counters.
So, this is not a bug.

If you think they should be enabled, please reopen the bug and state your
business  case for this feature.