[libvirt] "Choose alarm timer" feature for kvm

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 08:40:46PM +0200, Tiziano M?ller wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> In KVM it is possible to select the alarm timer being used (dynticks,
> hpet, rtc, unix).

What exactly do these options do ? Is there anything describing the
pros/cons of the different options & is there a way to determine 
what the best option is for a particular VM ? 

Basically I'm wondering where/if this should be exposed in the XML
format, or whether libvirt could/should just internally pick the 
best one ?

> Is someone already working on the support of this for libvirt?

Not that I'm aware of.

> If not I'll see that I can come up with patches for libvirt and 
> virt-inst within the next month (if time permits).


Daniel
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