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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:23:17 -0800
To: Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time
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On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
> Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I
> failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a
> virtual machine.

Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before.

One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual  
machine at all, only in the parent or host OS.  VMs depend on the  
host OS to provide the timekeeping, and it is known that systems  
running inside a VM may experience timing glitches as a result of  
running inside the machine emulation.

-- 
-Chuck