[Qemu-devel] Clock runs at double speed in guest

[Qemu-devel] Clock runs at double speed in guest

[Thomas Tuttle]

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Hi.

I have a 64-bit dual-core (Core 2 Duo) laptop, and I'm trying to install
Gentoo AMD64 on a Qemu virtual machine.

The system clock runs at double speed.  If I run `date' in a tight loop,
I can see it ticking off two seconds for every one second of real time.
The hardware clock does not run at double speed; if I run `hwclock
--hctosys', the system clock jumps back to the right time.

I have tried:

1) Setting the host's RTC's max-user-freq to 1024
2) Setting the guest's RTC's max-user-freq to 1024, just for good measure
3) Running the host with the CPU frequency locked to the minimum (1 GHz)
4) Running the host with the CPU frequency locked to the maximum (2 GHz)

This problem does not occur if:

1) The guest is booted with the kernel parameter "nolapic"
2) The guest is a 32-bit kernel
3) I manually modify hw/mc146818rtc.c to send interrupts half as
   often.

I'd really like to get this fixed, because it's the only barrier to me
being able to use Qemu (and KVM) for arch testing Gentoo.

If there's any more information I can provide (if you need access to the
machine, it could be arranged), please don't hesitate to ask.

I am not subscribed to qemu-devel, so please CC me on replies.

Thanks,

Thomas Tuttle

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Clock runs at double speed in guest

[C.W. Betts]

What OS are you using?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Tuttle" <qemu-devel@ttuttle.net>
To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Clock runs at double speed in guest
>Hi.
>
> I have a 64-bit dual-core (Core 2 Duo) laptop, and I'm trying to install
> Gentoo AMD64 on a Qemu virtual machine.
>
> The system clock runs at double speed.  If I run `date' in a tight loop,
> I can see it ticking off two seconds for every one second of real time.
> The hardware clock does not run at double speed; if I run `hwclock
> --hctosys', the system clock jumps back to the right time.
>
> I have tried:
>
> 1) Setting the host's RTC's max-user-freq to 1024
> 2) Setting the guest's RTC's max-user-freq to 1024, just for good measure
> 3) Running the host with the CPU frequency locked to the minimum (1 GHz)
> 4) Running the host with the CPU frequency locked to the maximum (2 GHz)
>
> This problem does not occur if:
>
> 1) The guest is booted with the kernel parameter "nolapic"
> 2) The guest is a 32-bit kernel
> 3) I manually modify hw/mc146818rtc.c to send interrupts half as
>   often.
>
> I'd really like to get this fixed, because it's the only barrier to me
> being able to use Qemu (and KVM) for arch testing Gentoo.
>
> If there's any more information I can provide (if you need access to the
> machine, it could be arranged), please don't hesitate to ask.
>
> I am not subscribed to qemu-devel, so please CC me on replies.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Tuttle

Re: [Qemu-devel] Clock runs at double speed in guest

[Thomas Tuttle]

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On March 31 at 18:17 EDT, C.W. Betts hastily scribbled:
> What OS are you using?

I am using Gentoo Linux with a 2.6.21-rc5 kernel and kvm-18 on the host,
and the Gentoo Linux 2006.1 AMD64 minimal installcd on the guest.

By the way, please don't top-quote.  You didn't need to include my whole
quoted message to ask such a short question. ;-)

Thanks,

Thomas Tuttle

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