On 2016-09-02 16:00, Per Jessen wrote:
> Continued from opensuse-factory:

(by the way, this was
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773323)


>> But if you run the ntp daemon on guests, it tries to adjust the speed
>> of the clock there. That's how it works.
> 
> Of course, that's what you want it to do.  You want the guest clock
> synchronized.  It would appear to be a good idea to have ntp on the xen
> Dom0 govern the clock for all the guests, but in my experience systemd
> does not like that. 

Yes, we want the clock synchronized, but not by adjusting the speed on
guests. Just copied from the host. It adds load on the virtualized hardware.

I know that vmware does recommends not running ntpd in guests, but
instead use:

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

I'll try again to find a source for this.


> I looked into in March 2015 when I was virtualising some systems, and
> found the Novell page above. 
> 
> The Xen FAQ:  https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_FAQ_DomU also recommends
> running ntp in each DomU. 
> 
> Finally, Werner Flamme wrote:
> 
>> When you install SAP systems on top of Xenified VMs, there is the
>> recommendation to do the latter: disable the sync and run a separate
>> ntpd in the DomU. This is also a recommendation for VMs inside a
>> VMWare environment - the problem ist the same there.
> 
> Back in March last year I did ask what the typical practice was, but
> noone had any suggestions.

This is against what I read the vmware people say.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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