QEMU fails to launch a sPAPR guest with clock sources other that RTC.
Internally qemu only uses RTC timer for hwclock. This patch reports
the right error message instead of qemu erroring out when any other
timer other than RTC is used.
Signed-off-by: Kothapally Madhu Pavan <kmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index c53ab97..31561ce 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -6440,6 +6440,15 @@ qemuBuildClockCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_PIT:
+ /* Only RTC timer is supported as hwclock for sPAPR machines */
+ if (ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch)) {
+ virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
+ _("unsupported clock timer '%s' for '%s' architecture"),
+ virDomainTimerNameTypeToString(def->clock.timers[i]->name),
+ virArchToString(def->os.arch));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
switch (def->clock.timers[i]->tickpolicy) {
case -1:
case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_TICKPOLICY_DELAY:
@@ -6483,13 +6492,21 @@ qemuBuildClockCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_HPET:
+ /* Only RTC timer is supported as hwclock for sPAPR machines */
+ if (ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch)) {
+ virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
+ _("unsupported clock timer '%s' for '%s' architecture"),
+ virDomainTimerNameTypeToString(def->clock.timers[i]->name),
+ virArchToString(def->os.arch));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
/* the only meaningful attribute for hpet is "present". If
* present is -1, that means it wasn't specified, and
* should be left at the default for the
* hypervisor. "default" when -no-hpet exists is "yes",
* and when -no-hpet doesn't exist is "no". "confusing"?
* "yes"! */
-
if (virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_NO_HPET)) {
if (def->clock.timers[i]->present == 0)
virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-no-hpet");
@@ -7047,6 +7064,15 @@ qemuBuildCpuCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
for (i = 0; i < def->clock.ntimers; i++) {
virDomainTimerDefPtr timer = def->clock.timers[i];
+ /* Only RTC timer is supported as hwclock for sPAPR machines */
+ if (ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch) && timer->name != VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_RTC) {
+ virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
+ _("unsupported clock timer '%s' for '%s' architecture"),
+ virDomainTimerNameTypeToString(def->clock.timers[i]->name),
+ virArchToString(def->os.arch));
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if (timer->name == VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_KVMCLOCK &&
timer->present != -1) {
virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "%s,%ckvmclock",
--
1.8.3.1
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