[libvirt] Clock problems with Windows guests and Xen

[Matthew Donovan]

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Matthew Donovan wrote:
> > When I start Windows guests with libvirt my clocks are 5 hours off.
When I
> > use a Xen configuration file, I can specify an offset (rtc_timeoffset =
> > -18000) to get my clock to sync with the host.  Is there a way to do
specify
> > this offset in XML with libvirt?  
> > 
> > Right now, I'm using version 0.4.4 but I downloaded the source for 0.5.1
and
> > it looks like that part of domain_conf.c hasn't changed.

> Sounds like you have the wrong clock offset setting, in the XML. There
> are two options:

>         <clock offset="localtime"/>
>         <clock offset="utc"/>

> Usually for Windows you want the 'localtime' one since it is dumb at time
> keeping & DST shifts.

> Daniel

That seems to have done it.

Thanks!
-matthew