Hi,

I'm trying to migrate a VM from one host to another where there is a 1KHz
difference in the TSC frequency between hosts. This results in errors
caused by this warning
<https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/b785d25e91718a660546a6550f64b3c543af7754/target/i386/kvm.c#L777>,
so migration fails. On the other hand, I can see few lines before that
<https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/b785d25e91718a660546a6550f64b3c543af7754/target/i386/kvm.c#L761>
that
there is a try to allow TSC frequency difference between host and VM if it
falls within the specified bounds. It seems like `KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ`succeeds
only when TSC Scaling is available
<https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/2c6605389c1f76973d92b69b85d40d94b8f1092c/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h#L1361>.
Practically this means that migration between hosts having difference in
TSC frequency, even when it falls within bounds, is possible only when TSC
scaling is available.

On the other hand, in libvirt,
<https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/commit/d8e5b4560006590668d4669f54a46b08ec14c1a2>
migration
is allowed if TSC frequency difference falls within bounds, no matter if
TSC scaling is enabled or not.

So, I was wondering is it intended not to allow migration between hosts
having differences in TSC frequency if TSC scaling is not available? Or is
it a bug?

Thanks in advance,
Veselina Radeva
https://st6.io/

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