Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/15] qtest: add rtc-test test-case

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/11/2012 06:06 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > The right thing to do would be to run the test with
> > vm_clock for the rtc_clock, add a way for the qtest machine to bump
> > the vm_clock
> > to the next event,
>
> I actually was looking at this yesterday.  Just bumping to the next
> event is not enough, you want to be able to control how time
> progresses.  I was thinking of adding another qtest_clock and allowing
> the rtc to use the qtest_clock.

Yes, that's right.  Only remark, I think it makes sense to reuse the 
vm_clock, so that you can reuse the icount infrastructure in -icount 0. 
 qemu_icount is then simply your nanosecond count.

This requires you not to set env->halted, though.

Paolo