how to get vm uptime through libvirt api

[Jiatong Shen]

Thank you very much for reply. I'll read the code and try to provide patch .

Best,
Norman

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 4:27 PM Michal Prívozník <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 7/26/22 10:07, Jiatong Shen wrote:
> > thank you very much for reply. I have got another question which is off
> > topic.
> > Am I able to get vm's process id through libvirt api?
>
> Unfortunately, no. We specifically try to avoid telling users this
> information so that they are not tempted to go behind libvirt's back and
> interact with QEMU directly (which can lead to a split brain scenario -
> libvirt thinks guest is in a certain state, but in fact it's in a
> different state).
>
> But as I said, it should be fairly easy to extend stats to report when a
> domain was started. If you don't feel comfortable providing a patch for
> that I can try.
>
> Michal
>
>

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Best Regards,

Jiatong Shen
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