[libvirt] guest clock offset, configuration

[Eric Blake]

On 06/07/2010 08:55 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having some trouble with guests booting up with huge clock offset
> (4 hrs). The offset is always the same which leads me to suspecting a
> configuration issue rather than a bug.
> 
> I looked around libvirt documentation and so far checked these:
>   * the hosts clock is correct (ntpd, manually verified)
>   * the timezones are correct (and the same) on both host and guest
>   * the clock element in the guest xml seems to be correct for a Linux
> guest - "<clock offset='utc'/>"
> 
> Is there anything else I should check?
> 
> FWIW, hosts are Fedora 12, guests are a mix of recent Fedoras.

Which version of libvirtd?  0.8.0 added some new <clock> features into
the XML for better control; the documentation is not yet complete, but
here's a snapshot to the work in progress:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-May/msg00393.html

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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