Il giorno Domenica, 11 Agosto, 2013 22:47 CEST, Ted Unangst
<t...@tedunangst.com> ha scritto:
> Nobody seemed to much care about my previous effort to get OpenBSD to
> play nicely inside a suspended VM.
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=134324835209706&w=2
>
> Instead of the kernel, this time I'm poking ntpd. To review, the
> problem is if the VM host is suspended, the VM guest (OpenBSD) doesn't
> get clock interrupts and therefore doesn't advance the clock. ntpd
> quite futilely attempts to cope with this:
>
> ntpd[15280]: adjusting local clock by 1396998.486806s
> ntpd[15280]: adjusting local clock by 1396997.386122s
>
> I'd like to add an option like -s that will jump the clock forward,
> not just once, but whenever it falls too far behind. I called it -j.
> If the clock is more than five seconds behind, we just set the time
> instead of trying to skew towards it. Note that we never jump
> backwards, that would be bad.
>
I like the idea and I am ok with the code, before committing it it needs some
man pages update.
Cheers
Giovanni
