Re: Is kvm-clock dependant on hardware of Physical Server?

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On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:03:33 +1300, Steven Ellis
<mail_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I've got a three Centos 5.5 KVM severs, but only one of them is
presenting
> guests with the kvm-clock source.
> 
> The two servers I'm not seeing kvm-clock on have Athlon x2 64bit
> processors.
> 
> The other server with kvm-clock has a Phenom II X6 1090T Processor.
> 
> I've checked the system configuration and all the boxes have the same set
> of RPM packages. To confirm that the issue was physical
> hardware specific I migrated a VM from the Athlon to the Phenom server
and
> the kvm-clock source appeared.
> 
> Any ideas why I'm not seeing kvm-clock with my Athlon X2 processors, or
is
> there another difference I haven't caught?
> 

Well it looks like the issue relates to constant_tsc.

Out of the 3 boxes only the Phenom has constant_tsc in the CPU flags. There
appears to be some kernel list references here -
* http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg10193.html

This finally led to the following docs
 *
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5/html/Virtualization_Guide/chap-Virtualization-KVM_guest_timing_management.html

Looks like I need to do some tweaking at the grub level for my Athlon X2
boxes

Steve

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