[fedora-virt] is there a best clock to use?

Glauber Costa glommer at redhat.com
Thu Jan 21 12:18:38 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:42:30PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Is there a HOWTO anywhere of the different ways to
> make time of day clock work in virtual machines and different
> ways to influence it from the qemu side of the world?
> 
> Time keeping is horrible in most of my virtual machines,
> and I just wonder if there are settings I can change
> in libvirt or kernel boot parameters I can apply in
> the linux guest to make things slightly less horrible?
> 
It basically depends on your guest. What guests are we
talking about here?

If you run a fairly recent linux (that has pvclock), you
should have no issues.



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