QEMU fails to launch a sPAPR guest with clock sources other that RTC. Internally qemu only uses RTC timer for hwclock. This patch reports the right error message instead of qemu erroring out when any other timer other than RTC is used. Signed-off-by: Kothapally Madhu Pavan <kmp(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c index 8e7404d..b74800d 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c @@ -3025,6 +3025,7 @@ qemuDomainDefValidate(const virDomainDef *def, virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps = NULL; unsigned int topologycpus; int ret = -1; + size_t i; if (!(qemuCaps = virQEMUCapsCacheLookup(caps, driver->qemuCapsCache, @@ -3037,6 +3038,18 @@ qemuDomainDefValidate(const virDomainDef *def, goto cleanup; } + /* Only RTC timer is supported as hwclock for sPAPR machines */ + for (i = 0; i < def->clock.ntimers; i++) { + virDomainTimerDefPtr timer = def->clock.timers[i]; + if (ARCH_IS_PPC64(def->os.arch) && timer->name != VIR_DOMAIN_TIMER_NAME_RTC) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, + _("unsupported clock timer '%s' for %s architecture"), + virDomainTimerNameTypeToString(def->clock.timers[i]->name), + virArchToString(def->os.arch)); + goto cleanup; + } + } + /* On x86, UEFI requires ACPI */ if (def->os.loader && def->os.loader->type == VIR_DOMAIN_LOADER_TYPE_PFLASH &&