Re: [PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Roth
Quoting Cornelia Huck (2019-11-28 12:11:00) > The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to > set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock > is not available, the user is currently informed that "hwclock > failed to set hardware clock to system time", which is quite

Re: [PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-12-04 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:11:00 +0100 Cornelia Huck wrote: > The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to > set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock > is not available, the user is currently informed that "hwclock > failed to set hardware clock to system time", w

Re: [PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-11-29 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 07:11:00PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to > set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock > is not available, the user is currently informed that "hwclock > failed to set hardware clock to system tim

Re: [PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-11-28 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:38:00 +0100 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Hi Cornelia, > > On 11/28/19 19:11, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to > > set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock > > is not available, the user is currently informe

Re: [PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-11-28 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Cornelia, On 11/28/19 19:11, Cornelia Huck wrote: > The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to > set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock > is not available, the user is currently informed that "hwclock > failed to set hardware clock to system time", which

[PATCH v2] qga: fence guest-set-time if hwclock not available

2019-11-28 Thread Cornelia Huck
The Posix implementation of guest-set-time invokes hwclock to set/retrieve the time to/from the hardware clock. If hwclock is not available, the user is currently informed that "hwclock failed to set hardware clock to system time", which is quite misleading. This may happen e.g. on s390x, which has