From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Is ntpd in guest necessary? Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:27:48 +0200 Message-ID: <49202DE4.3030801@redhat.com> References: <491C4E39.6030300@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Michael Tokarev Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:46745 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751888AbYKPO14 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:27:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <491C4E39.6030300@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Tokarev wrote: > A question that I asked on irc many times, > but got no answer.. > > Giving guest linux with CONFIG_KVM_TIME set, > is it necessary to run ntpd in it for accurate > time, or ntpd on host is sufficient? > > And the same, but without CONFIG_KVM_TIME ? > In theory, CONFIG_KVM_CLOCK should avoid the need for ntp. Let us know if you get different results. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function