Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] xen: disable rtc_clock

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 01/27/2012 01:26 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> rtc_clock is only used by the RTC emulator (mc146818rtc.c), however Xen
> has its own RTC emulator in the hypervisor so we can disable it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini<stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> ---
>   xen-all.c |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen-all.c b/xen-all.c
> index d1fc597..bf183f7 100644
> --- a/xen-all.c
> +++ b/xen-all.c
> @@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ void xen_vcpu_init(void)
>           qemu_register_reset(xen_reset_vcpu, first_cpu);
>           xen_reset_vcpu(first_cpu);
>       }
> +    qemu_clock_enable(rtc_clock, false);
>   }
>
>   /* get the ioreq packets from share mem */

Depending on "-rtc clock=vm" or "-rtc clock=rt", this may not be true.

Why do you need to instantiate an RTC at all?

Paolo