Re: So strange, time becomes skew when VM is running

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Feng Wang wrote:
> When I started up two KVM VMs upon SLES 10 OS based on a multi-core hardware
> platform and ran some computing-intensive tasks (e.g. SPECjbb2005) within each VM,
> I found that something confusing me very much.
> The VM which is first started is running as well as it runs without other VMs,
>   

The first VM is probably using the RTC as the time source;  
unfortunately only one process can use the RTC at a time.  If you use 
newer kvms (and newer host kernels), and configure HZ appropriately 
(dynamic tick or HZ=1000), then timing should be much better for all VMs.

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