Github user DaanHoogland commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/885#issuecomment-144958879 Had a look, the NPE won't occur within the scope of this fix. I would suggest some changes anyway to prevent future issues as the method isPowerStateUpToDate() is public.
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