How can a specific application be monitored by perf inside the kvm?

Question

I have an application which I want to monitor it via perf stat when running inside a kvm VM. After Googling I have found that perf kvm stat can do this. However there is an err

Answer 1

Use kvm with vPMU (virtualization of PMU counters) - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Tuning_and_Optimization_Guide/sect-Virtualization_Tuning_Optimization_Guide-Monitoring_Tools-vPMU.html "2.2. VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING UNIT (VPMU)"). Then run perf record -p $pid and perf stat -p $pid inside the guest.

Host system has no knowledge (tables) of guest processes (they are managed by guest kernel, which can be non Linux, or different version of linux with incompatible table format), so host kernel can't profile some specific guest process. It only can profile whole guest (and there is perf kvm command - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Tuning_and_Optimization_Guide/chap-Virtualization_Tuning_Optimization_Guide-Monitoring_Tools.html#sect-Virtualization_Tuning_Optimization_Guide-Monitoring_Tools-perf_kvm)