Re: Houston, we have May 15, 1953 (says guest when host uses cpufreq, and dies)

Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-18T19:32:45Z

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:18:50PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti schrieb:
>
>>> - what CPU frequency will the guests show? Current host frequency?
>>> Host frequency from the moment the guest booted (i.e. right now the
>>> guest will show 1GHz even if the host is running at 2GHz, or the way
>>> around)?
>>
>> Host frequency from the moment the guest booted, since the guest does
>> not receive frequency change notifications.
>
> Is it possible (or is it planned) to pass frequency to the guest (the
> one which is displayed in /proc/cpuinfo)?

Possible, not planned AFAIK.

> Someone may feel disappointed to see his/her brand new virtual guest has
> a CPU with so few MHz advertised in /proc/cpuinfo.

Thats a point.