Well OK, but I think every Intel x86 machine since 2005 that has acpi tables and an APIC also has a HPET. They are independent things, sure, but maybe virtual machines emulating x86 should enable it by default to be a compatible machine? It is on by default in qemu, for example. Alternatively, we need to do more work to calibrate another timer just for accurate delays.
Damien -------- Original Message -------- On 29/3/26 7:44 pm, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > As reported on #debian-hurd and https://bugs.debian.org/1132186, using a VM > in virt-manager leads to > > Crash with "hpet_init: Assertion 'hpet_addr != 0' failed.panic" > > We really shouldn't assume that APIC implies HPET. > > Samuel > >
