Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 May 2013 08:57:41 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/xen: sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock |
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>>> On 14.05.13 at 02:52, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote: > Honestly, it seems a little strange to me. If you're running as dom0, > why does HYPERVISOR_dom0_op() not cause the hypervisor to set the cmos > its virtualizing? This seems to mess with the proper virtualization > layering.
Thy hypervisor tries to control as little system and peripheral devices as possible, and the CMOS (including the clock) is among those not controlled by it, but by Dom0.
Jan
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