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Subject: Re: What IS the right NTP behaviour ?
From: Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent@asu.edu>
To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:
> One concern I keep running into:  Using NTP in VMs that are frequently suspended/resumed.  Though I suppose this may be covered by your 'workstation' scenario (just step it after VM resume when you see the large skew).

I would assume your hypervisor would sync the clock upon VM events. Does it not?

Brandon Vincent