From: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: disable clocksource=kvm-clock
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:06:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0513DB.1080108@dlh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C0512AA.6060906@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 04:57 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 06/01/2010 04:12 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to avoid detection of clocksource=kvm_clock in a
>>>> linux guest by
>>>> patching the qemu-kvm binary?
>>>> i would like to be able to avoid a guest detecting kvm-clock until
>>>> bug #584516
>>>> is fixed without modifying all guest systems and reverting that later.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Newer qemu-kvm's will have this feature (using -cpu ...,-kvmclock).
>>>
>> with latest git, i can supply this switch, but
>>
>> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>>
>> still shows kvm_clock in an opensuse 11.2 64-bit or an ubuntu 10.04
>> 64-bit guest.
>
> Try again with tomorrow's git, I sent out a patchset earlier today
> that fixes this.
>
avi, i do not know whats going on. but if i supply -cpu xxx,-kvmclock
the guest
still uses kvm-clock, but it seems bug #584516 is not triggered...
thats weird...
br,
peter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-01 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-01 13:12 [Qemu-devel] disable clocksource=kvm-clock Peter Lieven
2010-06-01 13:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-06-01 13:57 ` Peter Lieven
2010-06-01 14:01 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-01 14:06 ` Peter Lieven [this message]
2010-06-01 14:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-01 14:17 ` Peter Lieven
2010-06-02 9:58 ` Peter Lieven
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