Re: kern.timecounter.choice - possible values on a domU?

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost>]

I've never tried it, but I believe the correct setting would be:

kern.timecounter.hardware = clockinterrupt

But hopefully somebody else can give a more definite answer :).

-Dustin

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Dirk H.
Schulz<dirk.schulz%kinzesberg.de@localhost> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am looking deeply into xen and NetBSD with my Xen/Linux knowledge. That
> makes things difficult, so please bear with me. :-)
>
> I am looking for a way to make the system clock of a NetBSD domU independent
>  from the host systems hardware clock (I want to run ntpdate inside the
> domU) like it's done on Linux domUs with the independent_wallclock kernel
> parameter.
>
> Poking around in the sysctl value list I found
>   kern.timecounter.choice
> which sounds like the parameter to tune. But I did not find any
> documentation on the possible values of this parameter. So the questions
> are:
>
> - if there is documentation on this, where do I find it? (As I said, I am
> new to NetBSD, and there is a lot to learn yet)
> - if there is no documentation on this: What are the possible values, and
> what do I use to make domU's clock independent?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dirk
>
>