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Date:      Sat, 14 Oct 2023 19:23:28 -0700
From:      Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
To:        Sean McBride <sean@rogue-research.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bhyve guests: what clock source to use?
Message-ID:  <349797f7-e323-04ec-f643-521c27667041@redbarn.org>
In-Reply-To: <415C25C7-27B1-4706-BD4B-D484E4B6787B@rogue-research.com>
References:  <415C25C7-27B1-4706-BD4B-D484E4B6787B@rogue-research.com>

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in the old days i used to have to hard wire it. now it picks the same 
value i used to hard code. ntpd encountered chaos with other values.

kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC-low

i don't know if this has become an urban legend since i last fought it.

re:

Sean McBride wrote on 2023-10-11 11:28:
> Hi all,
> 
> As part of debugging a problem I'm having, I'd like to understand:
> 
> What clock source should bhyve guests use?  tsc? hpet? acpi_pm?  What are pros/cons of the choices?  Does it depend on the guest OS? (for me FreeBSD and Ubuntu)  Should it match the host?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
> 


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P Vixie




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