[Qemu-devel] Is 'hwclock -u -s' in a modern Linux guest necessary?

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

I've been examining the time taken to launch the libguestfs appliance[1].

One of the commands we run in our custom init is:

  hwclock -u -s

This takes 0.3 seconds, which is over 10% of the total launch time,
and as far as I can tell it does nothing useful.  It was added many
years ago, and no one knows what it does.

We can assume that we're running a modern Linux guest kernel, recent
qemu, have virtio, kvm-clock etc.  Is there any need to run this
command?

Rich.

[1] http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-internals.1.html

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