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 <mpriv...@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 > > -- Best Regards, Jiatong Shen