Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: disable clocksource=kvm-clock

[Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:57 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Try again with tomorrow's git, I sent out a patchset earlier today 
> that fixes this.
>
i don't see it in the git, do you mean:
[PATCH 0/5] Use more cpuid bits from upstream

thanks,
peter