>>> Googlemail <[email protected]> schrieb am 20.04.2014 um 19:08 in
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> Hi,
> 
> should it be not best practice to not use a the hardware clock in any 
> virtualized environment. I would strongly suggest to use an external 
> time source.

Hi!

>From some experience I had with Novell support in the past I learned that the 
>Xen hypervisor uses the hardware clock, and not the software clock to set up 
>clocks in virtual machines. Combined with the fact that SLES (in Xen at least) 
>seems unable to update the hardware clock while running NTP, this would 
>explain what happens if the hardware clock drifts away after some time...

I think there's little the user can do.

Regards,
Ulrich

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