Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:33:47 -0700 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD VMware guest never idles Message-ID: <3B4FCBAB.8030607@quack.kfu.com> References: <200103091510.f29FADi30516@morpheus.kfu.com> <20010309155114.C63383@midgard.dhs.org> <3AA950D2.5060108@quack.kfu.com> <rmiae291xth.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
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Greg Troxel wrote: > > Can anyone explain the consequences of disconnecting RTC? Is having > this 'connected' what makes the "hardware clock" in the VM synced to > the host os operating system time? Should I just run NTP on the guest > instead? > > Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> > It depends on the guest OS. FreeBSD uses the 'rtc' as the source for the profile timer, but if you're not profiling stuff, it shouldn't matter. Windows tends to use the RTC as a means of synchronizing multimedia stuff. Without it, the media player, shockwave/flash and other stuff like that... sucks more... sort of. So far as I know, Linux doesn't use it at all, except to provide for a /dev/rtc, which we just emulate with our emulating driver. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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