From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Apr 11 9: 5:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from gw.errno.com (node-d1d4bd7a.powerinter.net [209.212.189.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C3837B8EC for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [209.212.166.36]) by gw.errno.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA21388; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <110501bfa3cf$24316d40$24a6d4d1@melange> From: "Sam Leffler" To: , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" References: Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:01:04 -0700 Organization: Errno Consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This usually happens because the vm doesn't get enough timer interrupts (it happens on Linux and Windows hosts too). The 2.0 toolbox has a time synchronization mechanism that talks to the host via a backdoor, but it requires an X server be running in the virtual machine. In case you're not aware there's vmware news site at news.vmware.com; this sort of question comes up a lot. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: Clock drift in VMWare > Does anyone have any idea why the clock in a VMWare virtual machine > runs something like 30% slower than realtime? Is there any way to fix > that? xntpd just gives up; I'm down to running ntpdate from cron every > minute... > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message