DTrace script to inspect VM exit reasons #859
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This script reports the SVM exit codes for vCPUs as well as some information for select exit codes that include additional information (port IO accesses and NPF/nested #PF).
The script also describes causes of Bogus exits out to the VMM. Other VM_EXITCODE_* causes are probably interesting too, but I'm not immediately sure what I'd want to know there.
The output looks something like this, from a mildly loaded
propolis-standalone
that happens to use the ACPI PM timer (seen as accesses to IO port 0xb008):