Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/21/09 09:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/17/2009 4:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/18/09 12:39, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/21/2009 10:22 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf. I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100 still set. You will definitely want

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:40, Steve Polyack wrote: On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine (host ESX for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware, the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't used Xen, but for ESX: I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the vmtools available for FreeBSD do not support synchronizing the host time to the guest OS. I know it is supported (and works) for Linux, but by what

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/16/09 12:53, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I run multiple FreeBSD servers inside VMWare and I don't have this problem. Are you running VMWare workstation? Or ESX/ESXi? I am running VMware Server 2.0...thanks again. I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: I would really recommend switching to VMware ESXi if at all possible. I have a lot of FreeBSD VMs running under ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 that work just great with kern.hz=100 and openntpd. The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/17/09 16:23, Chuck Swiger wrote: The kern.hz=100 recommendation I can certainly agree with, but there is mostly no point in running ntpd or variants anywhere except on the host machine (host ESX for VMware, or Dom0 for Xen). For VMware, the vmtools stuff should provide a mechanism to

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/15/2009 9:38 AM, Jacques Manukyan wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:06:18 -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick rob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the

slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my ufs:/dev/da0s1a partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the line from the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in the format: kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so, it booted to the

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According to the loader.conf man page these should all be in

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.net wrote: On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrickrob...@webtent.com  wrote: I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by adding

Re: slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

2009-12-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Robert Fitzpatrick li...@webtent.net writes: On 12/12/2009 12:59 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2009-12-12 12:06:18 UTC-0500, Robert Fitzpatrick (rob...@webtent.com) wrote: pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=32 kern.ipc.semmns=512 hint.apic.0.disabled=1 According