Comment 9 for bug 1649718

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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote : Re: [Bug 1649718] Re: Linux rtc self test fails in a VM under xenial

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 08:17:53PM -0000, Ryan Harper wrote:
> I think this is related to kvm module in 4.4's in-kernel irq chip.
>
> If one runs with kernel_irqchip=off property set on the qemu command, then
> even Xenial on Xenial SMP
> never fails.
>
> Installing the 16.04 HWE Edge kernel (4.8.0-30) on my Xenial host resolves
> this as well.

This looks promising - https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/29/427

I'll test and see if those patches fix the problem.