Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:27:12 -0700 From: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare Message-ID: <38F3FB20.4B233222@wireless.net> References: <200004112006.WAA97397@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > >"Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> writes: > >> 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. > > > >You have my permission to consider "xntpd just gives up" and "running > >ntpdate from cron" as rather heavy hints :) > > > > Have you tried the /dev/rtc port to see if it helps ? Don't know > whether it only works for Windoze or not. I think this is a good suggestion. I have not tried it so I too would be interested in the results. I recall that VMWare complains about the host not having the /dev/rtc device upon startup and it says that windows will not keep time correctly as a result. So I think this is the right thing to try. -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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