Xen users - Jul 2007 - Push local rather than utc time to HVM domains

When I start a HVM domain, it appears to be out by the number of hours
of my UTC offset. I am guessing that qemu is setting the virtual BIOS
date to the physical UTC time, rather than the local time.

UTC makes sense for Linux, but Windows isn''t so smart so it would be
nice to have a choice... 

ntp fixes it up of course, but big time jumps like that can cause all
sorts of race conditions (eg scheduled tasks thinking they ought to run
before ntp kicks in).

Or maybe this option already exists and I don''t know about it?

Thanks

James

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James Harper schrieb:
> When I start a HVM domain, it appears to be out by the number of hours
> of my UTC offset. I am guessing that qemu is setting the virtual BIOS
> date to the physical UTC time, rather than the local time.
> 
> Or maybe this option already exists and I don''t know about it?
Hi,

according to the examples, the HVM DomU configuration files could take
localtime=1
as argument.



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Hi,

The examples say that it works using the "localtime=1" parameter, but
it doesn''t actually work.  It still passes UTC.  At least that is the
case with the xen-3.0.4 that I am running.  Can''t speak for newer
xens.

Derek.

On 7/1/07, Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@netz-haut.de>
wrote:
> James Harper schrieb:
> > When I start a HVM domain, it appears to be out by the number of hours
> > of my UTC offset. I am guessing that qemu is setting the virtual BIOS
> > date to the physical UTC time, rather than the local time.
>
> >
> > Or maybe this option already exists and I don''t know about
it?
>
> Hi,
>
> according to the examples, the HVM DomU configuration files could take
> localtime=1
> as argument.
>
>
>
> --
> Stephan Seitz
> Senior System Administrator
>
> *netz-haut* e.K.
> multimediale kommunikation
>
> zweierweg 22
> 97074 würzburg
>
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> fax: +49 931 2876248
>
> web: www.netz-haut.de <http://www.netz-haut.de/>
>
> registriergericht: amtsgericht würzburg, hra 5054
>
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