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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: |
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> Hi all - it's been awhile |
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> This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by |
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> http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration |
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> went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the |
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> machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo & the |
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> VM & rebooting solvles the problem, as vmplayer must initially get the |
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> date and time from the host, but it sure doesn't keep it right after |
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> that. I tried openntpd, but it kept setting the time further and further |
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> off. I live in Fort Collins, Co and my locatime is set correctly |
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> (America/Denver). This is my 1st time playing with VM's. Is this common? |
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> Is there any way around it? I'm not really sure why openntpd didn't |
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> work. |
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> Any and all help appreciated. |
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I need to explain this a little further, me thinks. My Gentoo VM is |
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losing right around 20 seconds every minute! This is not a problem that |
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ntp in any of its incarnations is designed to solve. A couple other |
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thing I have tried are |
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clock=pit noapic |
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appended to the kernel command line. I tried these together and |
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separately with no luck. Right now I'm trying another suggestion I |
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found, which is to change the kernel frequency timer from 1000Hz to |
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250Hz. I'm recompiling now and will let you know. |
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Any other suggestions still welcome. |
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Thanks, |
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festus |
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