Re: [Qemu-devel] Relative/Absolute timing snapshot problem

[Jes Sorensen]

On 03/18/11 21:39, Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> strange situation: When I create a snapshot using Qemu 0.14.0 stable, 
> everything works smoothly and resuming the CPU takes about 1-2 seconds. If I 
> don't use the snapshot file for some time, the time it takes to resume grows 
> by 2-3 seconds per day. At the moment, I'm looking at a snapshot file from 
> last week and it takes nearly 30 seconds to load.
> 
> Funny thing about it: if I turn my system time back to the date when the 
> snapshot was created (or before that), resuming CPU works within the expected 
> 1-2 seconds. I have _very briefly_ looked into it and it seems like Qemu 
> spends an aweful long amount of time catching up with timer execution -- is 
> it 
> possible that these are stored using absolute time instead of relative timing?
> 
> I am using qcow2 file format, because I absolutely rely on CPU-snapshots and 
> support for base-files. I have read here and there that it is more or less 
> broken (or at least very slow), but with the correct cache-options it works 
> for me (except for this bug, of course).
> 
> Has anyone encountered this or should I start looking into it (although I 
> have 
> some experience with the core source, I'm not very experienced with the 
> snapshotting code).

Hi Clemens,

Could you clarify what you are doing, when you say snapshot do you mean
a savevm operation (ie. checkpoint) or a disk snapshot?

Cheers,
Jes