Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v2v 0/5] convert: Find out if Windows guest is expecting BIOS localtime or UTC

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 04:26:59PM +0200, Alice Frosi wrote: > Hi Rich, > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 4:10 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > [Alice: See patch 2] > > > > I'm not 100% sure about the source of this work. However, we had in > KubeVirt people interested in using localtime with Windows [1]. Yes, I see > that you pointed to that PR in patch 2. The problem with that PR is the > migration. What happens if we migrate the VM to a host that is in another > timezone? Is it going to break the application running inside the VM? I would generally expect all hosts to be configured in the same timezone, for any given single cloud deployment. If you really are concerned about this problem though, libvirt lets you set this explicitly eg <clock offset='localtime' timezone='Europe/London'/>

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