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



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