Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:23:26 -0300 From: Einstein Oliveira <einstein@yawl.com.br> To: Va'clav Haisman <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: time goes slow in VmWare Message-ID: <45FEB8FE.9030207@yawl.com.br> In-Reply-To: <45FEB3DA.1060002@sh.cvut.cz> References: <45FE9AFB.9070703@FreeBSD.org> <45FEB3DA.1060002@sh.cvut.cz>
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Va'clav Haisman wrote: > Sergey Matveychuk wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows >> 2003 host. >> >> Time is a hour slow for a day. >> >> I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf >> I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hardware. >> Nothing helps. >> >> I've found it's not only my problem: >> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=26034&tstart=0 >> >> ntpd does not help. I think because it's too rude time for NTP. >> >> Any hints please. > I have same problem under MS Virtual Server R2. I did not find any way > how to solve this. Instead, I worked around this using ntpdate every > five minutes in cron job and I also set kern.hz=2000 in > /boot/loader.conf which helps a little bit. > > -- > VH > > We're using VMware hosted on Linux with FreeBSD as guest with this lines in /etc/vmware/config: --- host.cpukHz = "3000000" # Adjust this line to your cpu speed! host.noTSC = "TRUE" ptsc.noTSC = "TRUE" --- and vmware-tools installed with the following line in the FreeBSD .vmx: --- tools.syncTime = "TRUE" --- This is the best combination we tried to solve this problem. -- Einstein Oliveira einstein@yawl.com.br ___________________________________________________ Yawl Internet Ltda. http://www.yawl.com.br/
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