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Cc: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server
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On 2009-01-21 09:10:16PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> However, I am not sure what is at fault here, VMware or FreeBSD...  I'd
> guess the latter, since neither Linux nor Windows guest OSes seem to
> have any such timing problems.

Actually I have encountered such problems in mixed-bit environments
(64bit VMware hosting 32bit Ubuntu or vice versa).

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