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Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, "dlaor@redhat.com" <dlaor@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 09/09/2009 06:34 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> First step is qdev conversion for the RTC.  You can then introduce a 
> drift property.  I'd suggest something like 
> drift=none|catchup|gradual.  The default can be none.  We can also 
> introduce a kvm machine type where the default is catchup.  Obviously, 
> we don't support gradual today.
>

Maybe none|step|slew to avoid alienating mayo lovers.

Should be a global option that applies to all clock sources?

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