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            <title>Monitoring of Virtual Machines</title>        
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               <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> includes the following tools for viewing runtime
      information, configuration details, and performance metrics of virtual machines and cloud VM instances. </p>
              <note><p>To monitor a cloud VM, the Compute Instance Monitoring plugin must be enabled and running on the
                <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> instance. See the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/oci"/> 
                documentation for more details.</p></note>
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                     <p><uicontrol>Resources</uicontrol>. Displays an overview of performance metrics for all running virtual machines and cloud VM instances. </p>
                     <p> See <xref href="vm-activity-overview.dita"/>.</p>
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                     <p><b outputclass="bold">Session Information Dialog</b>. Displays configuration and runtime information for the selected VM.</p>
                     <p>See <xref href="vm-activity-session-information.dita"/>.</p>
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