RE: [Xen-users] What happend to /sys/xen and independent_wallclock (Xen 4.0/Linux 2.6.32)

RE: [Xen-users] What happend to /sys/xen and independent_wallclock (Xen 4.0/Linux 2.6.32)

[Michael D Labriola]

xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com wrote on 04/05/2010 03:55:00 PM:

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> RE: [Xen-users] What happend to /sys/xen and independent_wallclock 
> (Xen 4.0/Linux 2.6.32)
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> Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:35:57 +0200 <au@hcsd.de> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > finally I have managed to upgrade to Xen 4.0 (actually it reports Xen
> > 4.1-unstable) and Debian's Linux kernel 2.6.32-4-xen-amd64. Now I am
> > wondering what happend to independent_wallclock. There is no more
> > /sys/xen and sysctl complains
> > 
> > error: "xen.independent_wallclock" is an unknown key
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> I believe this is becasue the kernel is pvops based and the pvops 
> kernels atleast with the attached kernel configuration does not 
> populate /sys/xen in the filesystem.
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> There is files/folders in /proc/xen/ that are populated by the kernel 
though.

Uh, oh...  I need my domUs to have clocks independent from dom0.  Is this 
perhaps the default behavior in pv_ops (fingers crossed)?  Otherwise, I 
need to figure out how to force this behavior pronto.

-Mike

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Re: RE: [Xen-users] What happend to /sys/xen and independent_wallclock (Xen 4.0/Linux 2.6.32)

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 04/05/2010 03:05 PM, Michael D Labriola wrote:
> Uh, oh...  I need my domUs to have clocks independent from dom0.  Is this
> perhaps the default behavior in pv_ops (fingers crossed)?  Otherwise, I
> need to figure out how to force this behavior pronto.
>    

Yes, it is.   They'll default to the host system time at boot, but then 
you can adjust them independently.

     J