Windows 2008 Time Zone Change Even When Using -locatime

[Preston Connors]

* What cpu model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
* What kvm version you are using. : qemu-kvm-0.12.3
* The host kernel version : 2.6.32-30-server
* What host kernel arch you are using (i386 or x86_64) : x86_64
* What guest you are using, including OS type: Windows 2008 Enterprise x86_64
* The qemu command line you are using to start the guest : /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.12 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1 -name 2-6176 -uuid 4d1d56b1-d0b7-506b-31a5-a87c8cb0560b -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/2-6176.monitor,server,nowait -monitor chardev:monitor -localtime -boot c -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600144f05c11090000004d9602950073,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on,format=raw -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600144f0eae8810000004c7bb0920037,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2,format=raw -net nic,macaddr=00:00:d1:d0:3f:5e,vlan=0,name=nic.1 -net tap,fd=212,vlan=0,name=tap.1 -net nic,macaddr=00:00:0a:d0:3f:5e,vlan=1,name=nic.1 -net tap,fd=213,vlan=1,name=tap.1 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -serial chardev:serial0 -parallel none -usb -usbdevice tablet -vnc 0.0.0.0:394,password -k en-us -vga cirrus
* Whether the problem goes away if using the -no-kvm-irqchip or -no-kvm-pit switch. : Unable to test
* Whether the problem also appears with the -no-kvm switch. : Unable to test

Host time zone: EDT Guest time zone: PDT

Steps to reproduce:
1) Set time zone to (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) on guest
2) Power off Windows 2008 Enterprise x86_64 guest completely. Ensure the kvm process exits.
3) Power on Windows 2008 Enterprise x86_64 guest using virsh start <domain>
4) Server will show EDT time but have the time zone still set to (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).

Syncing the time after stopping and starting the kvm process using Windows "Internet Time" ntp time sync will sync the time to the correct PDT time.

Doing a reboot from within the guest's operating system where kvm does not exit will not cause the timezone shift to happen.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

QEMU 0.12 is completely outdated nowadays ... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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