Am 19.03.25 um 16:51 schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com> wrote: >> We'll only be able to disable it starting from a new (downstream) >> machine version, but that is fine. For now, I'll go for the revert, >> thank you for the suggestion! Is disabling it strongly suggested because >> of those bug reports? Or are there issues in general? > > No, the bug reports are really just for corner cases and there are no > huge issues. However, both Linux and Windows give the HPET a > relatively high priority that it probably does not deserve. :) > > For Linux you should be using kvmclock already, and for Windows the > Hyper-V paravirtualized clock. If you don't have the Hyper-V pv clock, > the RTC periodic timer is more battle-tested as an emulated > clock/timer device; disabling the HPET ensures that Windows uses the > RTC.
Good to know! Right, for Windows guests, we actually already disable HPET :) Best Regards, Fiona
