Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] implement a new icount_no_rt mode

[Victor Clement <victor.clement@openwide.fr>]

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> À: "Victor Clement" <victor.clement@openwide.fr>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: "françois Guerret" <francois.guerret@hotmail.fr>, "Julien Viard de Galbert" <julien.viarddegalbert@openwide.fr>
> Envoyé: Vendredi 29 Mai 2015 13:14:38
> Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] implement a new icount_no_rt mode
> 
> 
> 
> On 29/05/2015 10:54, Victor Clement wrote:
> > ----- Mail original -----
> >> De: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >> À: "Victor CLEMENT" <victor.clement@openwide.fr>,
> >> qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> >> Cc: "francois guerret" <francois.guerret@hotmail.fr>
> >> Envoyé: Mercredi 27 Mai 2015 14:52:55
> >> Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] implement a new icount_no_rt
> >> mode
> >>
> >> [...] Or are there other cases besides RTC devices?
> > 
> > The scenario engine and the trace recorder will need to use the
> > virtual
> > clock, so that all dates are based on the same clock.
> 
> Right, but there is no reason for these to use any other clock than
> the
> virtual clock.
> 
> > I hope this enlighten you on our motivations.
> 
> I understood your motivations; I'm still not really sure what other
> modifications you need in order to achieve determinism.
> 
> Paolo
> 

Normally none for determinism.

The only modification we need for our use case is to add some interfaces with the scenario engine 
and the trace recorder.

Victor