[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

Dennis Boone drb at ihatespam.msu.edu
Thu May 12 10:22:07 EDT 2011


 > On another note, with all the VMing of systems today I wonder what would
 > happen if I built  a system started it running, took a snapshot, shut it
 > down and then restarted it from the snapshot (note, not reboot, restart)
 > 10 years later?  Would it report an uptime of 10 years?

Likely.  I was running apt-get upgrade on a xen domu when the host was
shut down one time.  Guest suspended, hadware rebooted, guest resumed,
finished applying updates like nothing had happened.  Jut like it's
supposed to work, but you always expect reality to intervene.

De



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