Little, Chris wrote:

I have a guest that is having a heck of a time keeping time.  it loses
several hours each day.  I've tried using NTP to keep time on it, but it
gets so far off that NTP gives up and dies.  Any ideas, workarounds, etc?


If this happens on a recent kernel I would be interested to learn
why...  Is your hardware clock being synched with a 9037 maybe? I have
seen some weird things there and would like to see someone else show
evidence.

Are you sure time started off right?  I found problems in SuSE's
boot.clock that will set your Linux system time with random offset to
the hardware TOD.
Without NTP, Linux should stay on time with the hardware TOD clock. If
the drift of that clock is too much for you then you might consider to
run ntpd (which will give you more jitter and cost cycles, but may
prevent drift over time.

Rob

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