On 11 June 2014 12:33, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In practical terms, yes the VM needs to provide an RTC interface, but > I don't think it needs to appear in this spec, even if the kernel > accesses it directly. Portable images should use the UEFI service. I think it might helpful to include some implementation notes to the effect that the VM needs to provide certain things to the associated UEFI implementation but that these aren't part of the specification and the guest OS is expected to use the UEFI interfaces, just for the sake of clarity for people who aren't too familiar with what UEFI requires or provides. thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html