Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:36:19 -0800 From: John Webster <jwebster@es.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time Message-ID: <05D91BD95B7FC713169BCDA9@vortex.es.net> In-Reply-To: <9F240D22-0D8E-4A1B-8E03-FB3EC9262AB3@mac.com> References: <970760.74283.qm@web90601.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <9F240D22-0D8E-4A1B-8E03-FB3EC9262AB3@mac.com>
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--==========56C29E19BEEBE43D68A9========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:23:17 -0800 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote: >> Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I >> failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a >> virtual machine. > > Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before. > > One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual machine at all, only in the parent or host OS. VMs depend on the host OS to provide the timekeeping, and it is known that systems running inside a VM may experience timing glitches as > a result of running inside the machine emulation. <http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.1.>; --==========56C29E19BEEBE43D68A9========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFcHYjBf+aYL5/Y60RAoE/AJ4lZd4yKV2Hi+uyeNVCvGV9CCXVqgCeOx02 gsr8W8kXWY27nU2V2BvF8oE= =v4PE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========56C29E19BEEBE43D68A9==========--
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