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