On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:15:00PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: > On 08/20/2010 10:58 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > <snip> > >> a) uptime > <snip> > >You can't reliably get any of that information without having > >an agent running inside the guest OS. > > We should be able to get the uptime of the guest's qemu process itself > though, and report that back "over the wire" to a requesting client, > without needing a guest OS agent. Or even keep track of when libvirt > launched the guest as wall clock time. Yep that would be possible, I was just asuming John wanted the OS uptime based on his other data points there. > Not the same thing as "how long has the guest OS been up?", but > potentially useful for management tools. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list