Virtual Machine Power Usage Estimations

Abstract

Provided herein is power usage estimation that may be applied to computing devices. Further, the power usage estimation may be determined per each thread, process and/or program running on the computing device, such as, for example, a virtual machine. Power meters may be associated with individual components in a computing device, the sum of the power consumption of the computing components being equal to the total power consumption of the computing device. Metrics for usage by a process may be associated with each component, from which power consumption profiles based on component usage by a process may be created. Estimations of power usage may be used in contracting, billing, ranking, system control, priority, output and the like. Estimations of power usage may also include a power consumption “learning” phase and a way of incorporating previously disregarded base power usage into the estimate of power consumption by a process.

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