[Qemu-discuss] Combining VM checkpoints with -snapshot

2014-04-22 Thread David Wilson
Hi there, On experimenting with Qemu for use in providing CI build slaves, I had hoped to boot Windows, call "savevm" monitor command, then, with the .qcow2 cached, use something similar to "qemu -snapshot -S -monitor stdio .." followed by "loadvm" and "cont" to get a fresh, temporary VM booted in

[Qemu-discuss] guest freezes when host clock is advanced

2014-04-22 Thread James Ko
Hi, I have a linux guest running in qemu-kvm which freezes temporarily whenever the host clock is advanced. The freezing is ~1s/month of advance. So advancing the host clock by 1 year the guest will be frozen for about 12 seconds. There appears to be no impact when the clock is wound back ho