Bug 468947

Summary:	VirtualBox VM memoryused not reported
Product:	[Applications] plasma-systemmonitor	Reporter:	Méven Car <meven29>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	ahiemstra, bugseforuns, plasma-bugs-null, popov895, sephiroth_pk
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Méven Car 2023-04-25 12:38:51 UTC

SUMMARY

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run a VM in Virtualbox (in my case Neon)
2. Look in plasma-system-monitor in the host, the process view for the VirtualBoxVM process

OBSERVED RESULT
Memory column empty for the VM process.

EXPECTED RESULT
some memory usage is reported for the VM


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-40-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 Gio of RAM

Comment 1 Riccardo Robecchi 2023-05-04 10:29:11 UTC

I can confirm the bug.

Comment 2 popov895 2024-02-18 08:19:25 UTC

Duplicate of BUG 444323?

Comment 3 Arjen Hiemstra 2024-02-19 14:49:24 UTC

To an extent. In this case, the file is most likely not readable because VirtualBox protects it, rather than it being owned by a different user. In any case, for both the solution would be the same (some way of elevating to read the process data).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444323 ***