Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20/03/07, Sergey Matveychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adrian Chadd wrote: > The solution is to install the VMware or VirtualPC supplied drivers > for your environment. They'll include, amongst other things, fixes for > the RTC and timer drivers which will fix your clock skew issues (and > if

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-20 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Adrian Chadd wrote: > The solution is to install the VMware or VirtualPC supplied drivers > for your environment. They'll include, amongst other things, fixes for > the RTC and timer drivers which will fix your clock skew issues (and > if you've noticed, things like "sleep" acting oddly.) What do

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
This is the most often asked question with virtualisation of PC hardware. The question was finally answered, but here's the reasoning: * The operating system expects the clock/timer hardware to be consistent * The timer hardware in a VM isn't that consistent as the virtualisation environment is a

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Proto
Frank Behrens wrote: > Mark Dotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50: >> (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz="100") >> >> Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a >> week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point. >> >> I'

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Frank Behrens
Mark Dotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50: > (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz="100") > > Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a > week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point. > > I'd give that a try. :-) As

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Dotson
I found that the solution here: "http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/07/slow-time-with-freebsd-61-guest-on.html"; (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz="100") Worked well for me. I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after a week) but it can easily be handled by nt

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Joe Holden
Einstein Oliveira wrote: 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.hard

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Einstein Oliveira
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

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Frank Behrens
Sergey Matveychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19 Mar 2007 17:15: > I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows > 2003 host. Unfortunately I can't help you, but I observed the same problem on a GSX 3.2.1 on Linux. > Time is a hour slow for a day. > > I have hint.apic.0

Re: time goes slow in VmWare

2007-03-19 Thread Va'clav Haisman
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 f