From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 13:58:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7E1106566B for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:58:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eol1@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp105.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (smtp105.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 943FD8FC15 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eol1@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16694 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2008 13:31:29 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Ke1UDFiuts/cJuIwMIWk6vUQTqgTCJHZdANB5K5gc/f2JYZC1AuXsnrDAllJWJFQhsiXpAdLIqZFWPOYrnjpezTeTC4R2mjbzXhyfZHp5Y20SixRegS3jXqwxaeDEt/Ra8kl5Rybw5Z+etRDa43zmk6S1iotiip/n55ZbaGuTpg= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.1.219?) (eol1@12.198.128.186 with plain) by smtp105.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2008 13:31:28 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: 1K_ZNdIVM1nUsHuBpZQJbkwf.dihycs6JrqXdCuJoOqleUnQ1uL0BF5s35JZmkyH0KOr1vxRbmTB3npyd0zKE1DQUohMBDlqdQcZ X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <484A8D73.8040803@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 From: Peter Thoenen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <48499CCD.2010708@m2.seamanpaper.com> <991123400806062332r70a7b34co5c93ad14fdacb79f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400806062332r70a7b34co5c93ad14fdacb79f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@seamanpaper.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:58:11 -0000 > I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I > don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really 1.000001 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the native OS is under moderate to heavy use.