[libvirt] guest clock offset, configuration

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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,

we're using libvirt-0.7.1-16.fc12, but I'll check the link you included.

Thanks!