dom0/vm: set VM timezone same as in dom0 - on VM boot (#413)

dom0/qvm-core/qubes.py

@@ -644,6 +644,19 @@ class QubesVm(object):
         f_private.truncate (size)
         f_private.close ()
 
+    # FIXME: should be outside of QubesVM?
+    def get_timezone(self):
+        clock_config = open('/etc/sysconfig/clock', "r")
+        clock_config_lines = clock_config.readlines()
+        clock_config.close()
+        zone_re = re.compile(r'^ZONE="(.*)"')
+        for line in clock_config_lines:
+            line_match = zone_re.match(line)
+            if line_match:
+                return line_match.group(1)
+
+        return None
+
     def cleanup_vifs(self):
         """
         Xend does not remove vif when backend domain is down, so we must do it
@@ -704,6 +717,12 @@ class QubesVm(object):
                     "{0}/qubes_secondary_dns".format(domain_path),
                     self.netvm_vm.secondary_dns)
 
+        tzname = self.get_timezone()
+        if tzname:
+             xs.write('',
+                     "{0}/qubes-timezone".format(domain_path),
+                     tzname)
+
         for srv in self.services.keys():
             # convert True/False to "1"/"0"
             xs.write('', "{0}/qubes-service/{1}".format(domain_path, srv),

vm-init.d/qubes_core

@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ start()
 		(grep -v "\<$name\>" /etc/hosts; echo "127.0.0.1 $name") > /etc/hosts
 	fi
 
+	timezone=`/usr/bin/xenstore-read qubes-timezone 2> /dev/null`
+	if [ -n "$timezone" ]; then
+		ln -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/$timezone /etc/localtime
+		echo "# Clock configuration autogenerated based on Qubes dom0 settings" > /etc/sysconfig/clock
+		echo "ZONE=\"$timezone\"" >> /etc/sysconfig/clock
+	fi
+
 	# Set IP address again (besides action in udev rules); this is needed by
 	# DispVM (to override DispVM-template IP) and in case when qubes_ip was
 	# called by udev before loading evtchn kernel module - in which case

vm-systemd/qubes-sysinit.sh

@@ -48,3 +48,9 @@ if [ -n "$name" ]; then
     (grep -v "\<$name\>" /etc/hosts; echo "127.0.0.1 $name") > /etc/hosts
 fi
 
+timezone=`$XS_READ qubes-timezone 2> /dev/null`
+if [ -n "$timezone" ]; then
+    ln -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/$timezone /etc/localtime
+    echo "# Clock configuration autogenerated based on Qubes dom0 settings" > /etc/sysconfig/clock
+    echo "ZONE=\"$timezone\"" >> /etc/sysconfig/clock
+fi