On Dec 8, 2008, at 03:29, Michael Thayer wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Running OpenSolaris under VirtualBox 2.0.6 under Tiger >> on a MacBook. >> >> It appears that when the MacBook sleeps, VM's clock likewise >> sleeps. This morning Solaris was several hours slow. > ... >> Do I need to run NTP client? > The VirtualBox Guest Additions contain a time synchronisation daemon > which should deal with this. > Thanks. I think it's working. Enabling network synchronization in System->Administration->Time and Date seems not to work. It appears that when the skew is too great, the latter gets frightened and disables itself.
Since a hack to the guest is necessary to fix this, I wonder what happens when Solaris runs native on a PC, and the PC sleeps? I'd expect the same misbehavior, according to the explanation in the VBox RM. For Mac OS X, the Guest Additions are in a strange place, buried inside an Application. I had to edit VirtualBox.xml with vi to configure the image. Is there a better way? Serendipity. I love Mouse Integration and Auto Resize; I had been wishing for them but assumed they'd be impractically difficult. Are the Additions Mac-specific, or would they work if I port the hard disk image to Windows? Thanks again, gil _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
