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From: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: disable clocksource=kvm-clock
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:57:16 +0200
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:12 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> is it possible to avoid detection of clocksource=kvm_clock in a linux 
>> guest by
>> patching the qemu-kvm binary?
>> i would like to be able to avoid a guest detecting kvm-clock until 
>> bug #584516
>> is fixed without modifying all guest systems and reverting that later.
>>
>
> Newer qemu-kvm's will have this feature (using -cpu ...,-kvmclock).
>
with latest git, i can supply this switch, but

cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource

still shows kvm_clock in an opensuse 11.2 64-bit or an ubuntu 10.04 
64-bit guest.