[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] docs: bhyve: document clock configuration

--- docs/drvbhyve.html.in | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/drvbhyve.html.in b/docs/drvbhyve.html.in index 5479511..485b051 100644 --- a/docs/drvbhyve.html.in +++ b/docs/drvbhyve.html.in @@ -250,5 +250,33 @@ attempt to boot from the first partition in the disk image.</p> <p>Caveat: <code>bootloader_args</code> does not support any quoting. Filenames, etc, must not have spaces or they will be tokenized incorrectly.</p> +<h3><a name="clockconfig">Clock configuration</a></h3> + +<p>Originally bhyve supported only localtime for RTC. Support for UTC time was introduced in +<a href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284894">r2848... for <i>10-STABLE</i> and +in <a href="http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279225">r2792... for <i>-CURRENT</i>. +It's possible to use this in libvirt <span class="since">since 1.2.18</span>, just place the +following to domain XML:</p> + +<pre> +&lt;domain type="bhyve"&gt; + ... + &lt;clock offset='utc'/&gt; + ... +&lt;/domain&gt; +</pre> + +<p>Please note that if you run the older bhyve version that doesn't support UTC time, you'll +fail to start a domain. As UTC is used as a default when you do not specify clock settings, +you'll need to explicitly specify 'localtime' in this case:</p> + +<pre> +&lt;domain type="bhyve"&gt; + ... + &lt;clock offset='localtime'/&gt; + ... +&lt;/domain&gt; +</pre> + </body> </html> -- 2.3.7