Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:20:25 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "Duane Hill" <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping Message-ID: <991123400806072320h3e64b39vae2bc351b0a1fecf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080607170645.3ac211e7@home.dubuque.org> References: <48499CCD.2010708@m2.seamanpaper.com> <991123400806062332r70a7b34co5c93ad14fdacb79f@mail.gmail.com> <484A8D73.8040803@yahoo.com> <20080607170645.3ac211e7@home.dubuque.org>
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:30:27 -0400 > Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> confabulated: > >> > I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and >> > I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the >> > host >> >> How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you >> using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on >> boot, I routinely lose 15 minutes a day (I keep it up 24x7). I think >> it is not so much a bug in VMware as opposed to the host OS running >> slower than it thinks (e.g. maybe a second of OS time is really >> 1.000001 seconds of real time adding up over long periods) if the >> native OS is under moderate to heavy use. > > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE within Vmware v6.0.4 build 93057 with > the host OS being XP-Home-SP2. I also have two jails running within the > FreeBSD VM. > > I have within /boot/loader.conf: > kern.hz="50" Oh, this explains why I never has issues with time. I always have kern.hz="100" in loader.conf and I run ntpdate on startup. Sorry if I mislead others. -- EB White - "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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