From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Apr 12 5:58:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from wireless.net (wireless.net [207.137.156.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B79537BBFA for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 05:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Received: from db.wireless.net (db.wireless.net [209.75.70.101]) by wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA14603; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wireless.net (dbm.wireless.net [192.168.0.2]) by db.wireless.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA24027; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbutter@wireless.net) Message-ID: <38F3FB20.4B233222@wireless.net> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 21:27:12 -0700 From: Devin Butterfield X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Sam Leffler , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock drift in VMWare References: <200004112006.WAA97397@peedub.muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > >"Sam Leffler" 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