Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] reenable vm_clock when resuming all vcpus

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/09/2011 05:22 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> The bug was 100% reproducible on the machine I was testing, previously,
> and after this commit it didn't happen anymore. I double-checked by
> re-testing this commit (47113ab6), and the previous one (f67ab77a)
> twice, after bisecting.
>
> (If anybody has some possible explanation on how this patch could have
> any impact on the above symptoms, or want to investigate further, please
> let me know. I think I will stop debugging this, move on, and finally
> stress-test my qemu_fclose() series, now.)

I'm not sure about how the patch could fix this, but I'm not surprised 
that Linux shows the bug in more mysterious ways than Windows.  That's 
because Windows uses the (in-QEMU) HPET for timing and Linux by default 
uses the (in-kernel) kvmclock.

Paolo