Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 17:06:45 +0000 From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping Message-ID: <20080607170645.3ac211e7@home.dubuque.org> In-Reply-To: <484A8D73.8040803@yahoo.com> References: <48499CCD.2010708@m2.seamanpaper.com> <991123400806062332r70a7b34co5c93ad14fdacb79f@mail.gmail.com> <484A8D73.8040803@yahoo.com>
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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" And within root's crontab: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin @reboot ntpdate us.pool.ntp.org I do not have the Vmware tools loaded. Nor do I have ntpd running. Time has not been a big issue. The host OS (XP) is used more than average for the irreplaceable Windoe$ software I have yet to find replacements for native to FreeBSD. I just decided to do an ntpdate and here are the results: plz# ntpdate -b us.pool.ntp.org 7 Jun 17:04:06 ntpdate[57748]: step time server 208.53.158.34 offset 2.433443 sec plz# uptime 4:59PM up 6 days, 18:47, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- "If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving!"
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