[fedora-virt] How do you disable hpet in a kvm?

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

> >If you are running libvirt 0.8.0 or newer, and if your qemu-kvm
> >supports the -no-hpet option (check the output of "qemu-kvm
> >--help"), you can add the -no-hpet option for qemu-kvm for a
> >particular domain by editing the domain's XML (with "virsh edit
> >domainname") and adding
> >
> ><timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
> >
> >to the "clock" section. It will end up looking something like this:
> >
> >
> ><clock offset='utc'>
> ><timer name='hpet' present='no'/>
> ></clock>
> Brilliant answer.  This is exactly the feature I need, but my Fedora
> 11 hosts are at libvirt 0.6.2 and Fedora 13 appears to only be up to
> 0.7.7.  Is it possible (and stable) to upgrade a Fedora 11 or 13 to
> libvirt 0.8.0+?  Could you please post a link to documentation on
> how to upgrade libvirt?  Is there a specific 0.8.0 version you would
> upgrade to?  Thank you.

I vote for F13 update to libvirt 0.8.0 too. :-)
Works well for me on one testing machine.

Another solution is to use F13 + virt-preview repository. This contains
needed libvirt.

			SAL