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From: Beth Kon <eak@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: hpet missing in qemu-kvm's acpi table
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:37:43 -0400
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does qemu-kvm's bios intentionally refrain from reporting hpet support
> via acpi or is this a bug? It works nicely with upstream (tcg & kvm mode).
>
> Jan
>
>   
Hi Jan. HPET is not in qemu-kvm yet because there are some issues unique 
to qemu-kvm regarding disabling of the in-kernel PIT. I have patches 
ready to submit and should be able to do so next week (long story), so 
hopefully this will be resolved shortly.