I did a basic search online and found: To enable HPET in a guest using virt-manager, modify the guest's XML configuration to include the HPET timer. Add
<timer name='hpet' present='yes'/> within the <clock> section. There may be a GUI option for it as well. Damien Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 1/4/26 6:15 am, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote: > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 29 mars 2026 14:32:12 +0200, a ecrit: > > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 29 mars 2026 13:10:42 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Damien Zammit, le dim. 29 mars 2026 09:15:02 +0000, a ecrit: > > > > Well OK, but I think every Intel x86 machine since 2005 that has acpi > tables and an APIC also has a HPET. > > > > > > Perhaps, but we can't fight people just using some default virtual > > > machine configurations that don't have hpet by default for whatever > > > reason, which we can't really afford fighting either. > > > > > > Really, making hpet optional in gnumach seems easy enough to me rather > > > than fighting th rest of the world. And if some people want fine-grain > > > timing support in their VM, they'll have to find out where to enable it. > > > > Put another way: what happened is that pere on #debian-hurd just gave up > > porting onetbb because he couldn't boot the current pre-installed image > > or installer with virt-manager. And no, he couldn't easily run qemu > > because he didn't have the disk space locally to do so. > > And he did have a look, he didn't find a way to enable an hpet. > > Samuel >
