On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:02:13PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > It's interesting to imagine that a virtualization host could present a > time service to the guest *userspace*, even when the guest is not > otherwise exposed to the internet at large. This could take the form of > an NTP server on a private network, or as an implementation of a time > source directly usable by ntpd in the guest, for instance as an emulated > serial port with synthetic NEMA GPS signal + PPS signal, for instance.
If the idea is to avoid bothering the guest user space, in order to be convenient, then the host can provide a synthetic PPS, to be used by the kernel's hardpps logic. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
