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Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Casey Scott <casey@scottmail.org>
Subject: Re: Considering FBSD as Xen host
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On 04/30/12 23:45, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30 Apr 2012, at 23:07, Hugo Silva wrote:
>> domU support works (HVM+PV), altough last time I tried (9.0-BETA1, I think) it had problems keeping time.
>
> Keeping time is a general issue with virtualized hosts. Just run NTP and you'll be fine :)
>
> Jeroen.
>

I don't see the same issue in NetBSD or OpenIndiana domUs.. the clock 
drift is (or was, haven't tested this since the beta) so extreme on 
FreeBSD HVM+PV that ntpd would refuse to set the clock after some time.