> From the discussion in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1851062 it > appears that the issue does not occur for all Windows 10 VMs. Does > that fit the theory it is caused by RTC periodic timer ticks? In my > VM, clockres reports These days I just kill -STOP/-CONT the qemu of the VMs when pausing/resuming to work around this. I also haven't noticed any clock drift in the Windows VM (which is Windows 8, so quite old for Windows standards) So whatever the Windows drift problem was it's likely long fixed, and we're just burning CPU time for no good reason on modern Windows. -Andi