I only have a few virtuals still running in KVM and I think now I'm more comfortable using my SmartOS servers for zones only. So I moved that domain controller over to VMware, the time issue was immediately resolved and everything seems good. Thanks everyone for the suggestions, as always
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Nahum Shalman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/25/2015 07:03 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: > >> I have a domain controller in a subnet B, running Windows 2008 R2 on KVM >> in a SmartOS zone. The server is not the authoritative time server for the >> domain. The time server is the PDC Emulator, which is in subnet A. The >> problem I'm having is the DC running on KVM refuses to sync time with the >> one in subnet A. The PDCE is a guest on VMware and keeps time no problem >> for the rest of the domain. I may just need to move the Subnet B domain >> controller off of KVM if it's an issue, but maybe it's a simple fix. Does >> anyone know what the problem might be? >> > > One possibility is that there's a mismatch between SmartOS/QEMU passing in > UTC time as the hardware clock time to the guest, and Windows expecting the > hardware clock to be set to local time. > > If the clocks are wildly different, perhaps Windows refuses to sync? Does > manually adjusting the time on the SmartOS guest and then triggering a sync > work? > > If that's indeed the culprit there are tweaks you can do on either side of > the virtualization. Registry tweaks in Windows, or hacks on the SmartOS > side to pass in what the VM would expect as "local time". > > -Nahum > -- Mark ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
