[vbox-dev] Internal design question

[Jonas Mellin]

I am running Windows XP as host and Ubuntu 8.10 with Linux 2.6.24.7-rt27
(real-time preemption) as guest. I wonder how the high precision timer
is affected by the use of virtualbox in this setup. I can perceive a few
scenarios myself:
1) The timer runs without interference of the virtualization. The only
effect is that the host affects the guest by delaying its execution.
2) In the switch between host and guest, the value of the timer is saved
and restored. The effect is that in terms of execution time, there is no
delays due to the host system. However, w.r.t. absolute time there is a
devation that goes undetected unless the system clock is accessed.
3) The timer does not work. My test programs gives the impression that
it works, so I have discared this scenario.

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