On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:38:44PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > The current value for the -rtc driftfix option is 'none'. This patch > makes sure that the old machines configuration will work the same way > even after that option changes its default value. > > Signed-off-by: Crístian Viana <via...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > > There's a scenario when things don't work the way I expected: when I set a > previous machine with -M, the driftfix flag value on the command line is not > used, the machine's default value overwrites it. I'm not sure if that's the > expected behavior of QEMU in those cases (if I set a machine, I can't change > its > properties) or if there's a bug somewhere. This is the question I asked in a > previous e-mail (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/149902). > > For example, > > $ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-x86_64 -M pc-1.0 --rtc driftfix=slew > > will use "driftfix=none", which is the default for the machine pc-1.0, not > "driftfix=slew" as I set on the command line. That only happens if I choose > a different machine than the default one (pc-1.1 as of now); otherwise it > works fine.
I can't answer your question as to why this happens, but this is a critical problem we must fix before merging this change. We need to be able to set driftfix=slew for old machine types manually. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
