From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 1 18:36:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1092516A415 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:36:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=b5de8ce5c42adfe172239a5434822cb4136f1d81=171=es.net=webster@es.net) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2D143CBC for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:36:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SRS0=b5de8ce5c42adfe172239a5434822cb4136f1d81=171=es.net=webster@es.net) Received: from vortex.es.net (vortex.es.net [198.128.1.16]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ASMTP (SSL) id FEL67619; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:36:19 -0800 Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:36:19 -0800 From: John Webster To: Chuck Swiger 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========56C29E19BEEBE43D68A9==========" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Webster List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:36:27 -0000 --==========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 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. --==========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==========--