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



On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 07:07:42PM -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> [...]
> The NetBSD dom0, however, does periodically set the Xen time to the
> NetBSD time, so (assuming the dom0 is running ntpd or similar) any Linux
> domUs with a non-independent clock will get more or less the right time.
> 
> Arguably, that dom0 code also belongs in a daemon rather than the kernel.

At last part of it needs to be in the kernel: you also need to update
the RTC clock periodically (I fixed this a few days ago).

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