From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Apr 11 9:24:42 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 B53DF37B954 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:24:38 -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 JAA21451; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <115501bfa3d1$d0e58ba0$24a6d4d1@melange> From: "Sam Leffler" To: , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" References: <110501bfa3cf$24316d40$24a6d4d1@melange> Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:20:13 -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 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" To: ; "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" 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" > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message