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Hi Experts,
How the virtual timers work in the ARM V8 ?
Key usage of physical and virtual timers in ARM V8 ?
Similar answer to the virtual interrupts post.
The Generic Timer is commonly used by OSs (whether in a virtual machine or not) to generic scheduler ticks. In a virtual environment, the Hypervisor often needs to virtualize the vm's view of time. For example, to hide the passage of time while that VM wasn't scheduled. The virtual timer allows the Hypervisor to do this.