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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]xl: Add "xl uptime" command
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:18:53 +0100
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On 13/05/10 11:10, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>> I find this command basically useless, since on restore the "start_time"
>> is not kept. do we actually need this ?
>>
>
> I think it's sometimes useful. I noticed that just the day before yesterday,
> somebody asked in the xen-api list about "uptime" command.

it is useful if it works :)

however this version of start_time means "when was this xen domain 
started" which is not the VM start time (i.e. "when was my vm booted"). 
To be useful start_time need to preserved across migration and 
suspend/restore.

xen-api does the right thing and returns the later.

-- 
Vincent