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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Matt Lupfer <mlupfer@ddn.com>, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] CentOS 5.x intermittently fails to boot on QEMU 1.7.0
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:59:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5308670E.7050301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5307F614.3060204@ddn.com>

Il 22/02/2014 01:57, Matt Lupfer ha scritto:
> Thanks for the response.  The hpet_timer() callback calls timer_mod()
> every 1 ms.  That timerlist has no notify callback so it in turn calls
> qemu_notify_event().
>
> The guest kernel is only enabling the HPET timer and looking for
> timer interrupts.

FWIW, the HPET implementation is not very high precision (it has a large 
latency because it is implemented in userspace) and it is also very 
slow.  I suggest running always with -no-hpet.

Paolo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21  4:34 [Qemu-devel] CentOS 5.x intermittently fails to boot on QEMU 1.7.0 Matt Lupfer
2014-02-21  6:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-21 13:27 ` Alex Bligh
2014-02-22  0:57   ` Matt Lupfer
2014-02-22  8:55     ` Alex Bligh
2014-02-22  8:59     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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