My experience is thus: The misbehavior of NTP on a VM will happen "when you care most". When the host is under resource constraints, clock cycles will be stolen from some guests so that other more demanding guests can have them.
D On 4/4/2016 12:18 PM, Jeremy Charles wrote: > > I’m seeing all sort of documentation about how it’s not a great idea > to use a VM as an NTP server due to how sketchy time tracking is > within a VM. > > > > My supervisor directed me to try it anyway. He feels that our > existing NTP servers are too old and need to be replaced, and he wants > to replace them with VMs rather than physical servers. > > > > I’m not seeing any difference in behavior between the two existing > physical NTP servers and the VM that I set up to test as an NTP server. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > == > > Jeremy Charles > > Epic’s Computer and Technology Services Division > > jchar...@epic.com > > 608-271-9000 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it at http://www.megacity.org/gpg_dballing.txt Learn how to encrypt your email with the E-Mail Self Defense Guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
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