Re: time stops under VMWare VM

2013-06-23 Thread Rodolfo Gouveia
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 08:00:38PM -0500, Josh Hoppes wrote: I've run into this issue as well in past versions. Set this in /etc/sysctl.conf kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0 Thanks Josh! That solved the problem. I was able to set the time correctly with ntpd just after setting that

Re: time stops under VMWare VM

2013-06-22 Thread André Stöbe
Josh Hoppes wrote: I've run into this issue as well in past versions. Set this in /etc/sysctl.conf kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0 Yes, that's the sysctl I've adjusted, too. The one I mentioned earlier is not correct. I think I only used it to get valid values to set for

time stops under VMWare VM

2013-06-21 Thread Rodolfo Gouveia
Hi all, I have had this issue that time stops under my 5.3 AMD64 VM running on top of VMware ESXi 5. The VM gets in this strange behaviour that time just stops: $ date Fri Jun 21 18:19:55 WEST 2013 $ sudo date 198506131627 Thu Jun 13 16:27:00 WEST 1985 after a few minutes $ date Thu Jun 13

Re: time stops under VMWare VM

2013-06-21 Thread André Stöbe
Rodolfo Gouveia wrote: I have had this issue that time stops under my 5.3 AMD64 VM running on top of VMware ESXi 5. I had similar issues some time ago. After running into this two or three times I found some hints on the FreeBSD forums, where several people were looking for answers to the same

Re: time stops under VMWare VM

2013-06-21 Thread Josh Hoppes
I've run into this issue as well in past versions. Set this in /etc/sysctl.conf kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:25 PM, André Stöbe andresto...@gmail.com wrote: Rodolfo Gouveia wrote: I have had this issue that time stops under my 5.3 AMD64 VM running on top of