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From: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Subject: Re: porting fixes regarding kvm-clock and lost irqs to stable qemu-kvm
 0.12.4
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:34:55 +0300
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Hi,

Peter Lieven wrote:
> i was looking for a generic way to disable it in the hypervisor
> without the need to touch every guests kernel commandline.
> this would be easy revertible once its all working as expected.
This is a huge hack but for the same reason I've made an LD_PRELOAD
wrapper that wraps ioctl masking the hsot kernel's kvmclock feature from
userspace kvm. I'll be happy to share it if you're interested.

Works like a charm, migration has worken reliably with qemu-kvm 0.11.3 +
the wrapper.

Regards,
Faidon