[libvirt-users] time setting after suspend/resume

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:23:08PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>On 29/09/14 16:28, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:16:25AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>     I am using libvirt with qemu/kvm with qemu-guest-agent and
>>> suspend/save/resume linux and windows vm's.  Time in Windows gets
>>> handled fine with ntp but I can get neither ntp or chrony to sync after
>>> resume without manually setting the time close to correct first.
>>>
>>> Searching has gotten me to the point where I can manually set the time
>>> using qemu-guest-agent but I cant figure out how to get libvirt to
>>> automaticly trigger this on resume.  I am finding information saying it
>>> works but not how, or that its still work in progress and not
>>> implemented yet (but patches exist).  Can someone either say "its not
>>> working yet" or explain what I am missing please?
>>>
>>
>> What version of libvirt are you using?  Since 1.2.5 there's
>> virDomainSetTime() API that can do this and since 1.2.8 it's called
>> automatically after resume.
>>
>> Martin
>
>Thanks Martin for replying.
>
>I am using 1.2.6.  I presume that there is no way to get 1.2.6 to
>trigger it after resume (has to be manual) so I'll have to upgrade to 1.2.8.
>

Well, not in a supported way, but the only thing it does is call
"guest-set-time" in guest agent.  And that you can do with virsh (or
API) yourself.

Martin
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