Re: [Xen-devel] Time in Xen

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> By RTC, you mean the hardware RTC ? Doesn't xen maintain a system time
> on its own ?

Since domain 0 can't currently set Xen's syetm time, using the RTC is
the only way to get a stable (crystal-based) timebase.

> As long as xen system time is settable via a domain 0 user tool
> (ntp-alike), I don't really care about the hardware RTC.

Tracking the RTC is a nice default --- if DOM0 is running ntp then we
can track updates from DOM0 instead. This really shouldn't be that
hard to implement.

 -- Keir


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