[libvirt] [PATCH] Xen: Fix <clock> handling

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 17 21:24:11 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 05:02:14PM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> For PV, Xen implements the <clock offset='utc'> and <clock
> offset='localtime'> behaviour, while for HV it implements <clock
> offset='variable'>.
> This difference is important for domUs, which switch daylight saving on
> there own, since the state is kept inside the VM and must be in sync
> with the RTC provided by Xen.

What versions of Xen is that true for ?  I didn't think that old
versions behaved this way for HVM. The libvirt Xen driver is still
intended to support the RHEL5 vintage Xen code (which is based on
3.0.3)

Regards,
Daniel
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