Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:20:13 -0700 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare Message-ID: <115501bfa3d1$d0e58ba0$24a6d4d1@melange> References: <xzppurwlnn2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <110501bfa3cf$24316d40$24a6d4d1@melange>
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I just realized that you didn't mention the guest you were running in the
virtual machine. If it's a windows system then my comment about needing an
X server for the toolbox is nonsense; you only need it when running the
TCL/TK-based toolbox. On Windows systems the toolbox is a Win32 app.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
To: <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare
> 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" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
> To: <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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...
> >
>
>
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