Hi Dmitry. Telling "embedded backlog" I mean some kind of buffer which holds undelivered clock ticks. This is not related to VMware Tools, it is part of VMware and works even if tools are not installed.
I think you know it better than me that VMware Workstation virtualizes clock devices and delivers it's ticks to guest OS. If OS is busy that delivery can be delayed and stored to so called backlog. Then backlog will be catched up as quick as possible. So, I'm asking about this internal buffer, is it available for tools? Is there any interface to it? I'm writing simplified sync daemon which contains interface to VMware backdoor only and would like to track backlog too in order to don't allow oversync. Best regards Vladimir Vlasov -----Original Message----- From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:d...@vmware.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:42 PM To: Vlasov, Vladimir Cc: open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Is it possible to access VMware clock ticks backlog from the Open VMware Tools? Hi Vladimir, On Monday, June 14, 2010 09:44:05 pm Vlasov, Vladimir wrote: > Hi. > > VMware has embedded backlog for delayed clock ticks so guest can catch up > after starvation. Is there any way to access this backlog from the Open > VMware Tools? > > Tools contain guestd which can sync guest to host and I think it should > have such access in order to sync properly. I downloaded source and tried > to find something but failed. > I'll try better but may be someone already know something regarding subj? > I am not sure what you mean by "embedded backlog". The timeSync plug-in in mmtoolsd (residing in services/plugins/timeSync/) implements the synchronization algorithm. It basically queries host for current time and > then slows down or speeds up guest clock to get back in sync with the host. You can enable and disable time synchronization via vmware-toolbox or vmware-toolbox-cmd. I hope this answered your question. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
