From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 15:46:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3895F1065673 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19DB8FC1B for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.20]) by qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id QFlh1i0030SCNGk5FFmc7d; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:36 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id QFmb1i01Y1t3BNj3VFmcZj; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:36 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47A9D102C19; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:46:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:46:34 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Martin Sugioarto Message-ID: <20120121154634.GA39172@icarus.home.lan> References: <4F15D643.8000907@rewt.org.uk> <20120118075049.289954e8@zelda.sugioarto.com> <20120121101842.786fc402@zelda.sugioarto.com> <20120121141151.0ee68aa3@zelda.sugioarto.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120121141151.0ee68aa3@zelda.sugioarto.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Joe Holden , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , Ronald Klop Subject: Re: Timekeeping in stable/9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:37 -0000 On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 02:11:51PM +0100, Martin Sugioarto wrote: > Am Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:20:51 +0100 > schrieb "Ronald Klop" : > > Do you run NTP on the guest XP also? If yes, turn it off. > > Windows XP default installation (synch'ed to time.windows.com). > Switching this off, does not have any influence. I think MS-Windows > does not do continuous synchronization, only at system start, I guess. Incorrect; Windows XP syncs the clock using the W32Time service, which polls NTP at the interval specified in DWORD registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\SpecialPollInterval. You can read more about it in detail here (see section "Windows XP Professional and all versions of Windows Server 2003"): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884776 > > BTW: My experience with VBox is that it is nice for hobby stuff, but > > not for heavy load server stuff. VMWare does a better job there. Agreed. The number of problems with VirtualBox continues to grow (you should see my Mail/sent folder sometime). I don't know or why anyone on earth would use VirtualBox with problems like what's described in this thread, combined with problems like what's described below (which TMK still hasn't been addressed): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-February/061642.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-July/063172.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-July/063221.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-July/063322.html I would recommend you stick with bare metal, or use something that's at least well-established like VMware products (Workstation, for example, is actually affordable, and ESXi is free -- though there have been problems posted to the list about FreeBSD on ESXi as well). Xen gets praise here on the lists, but I haven't tried it myself. I stick with bare metal for everything, sans "tinkering around". -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |