An introduction to timekeeping in Linux VMs

Posted by bob on Jun 9, 2017 1:25 AM CST
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Keeping time in Linux is not simple, and virtualization adds additional challenges and opportunities. In this article, I'll review KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V related time-keeping techniques and the corresponding parts of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is the process or activity of recording how long something takes. We need "instruments" to measure time. The Linux kernel has several abstractions to represent such devices: read more

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