Fwd: Lousy timekeeping in VirtualBox 4.0.14

Oliver Heesakkers freebsd at heesakkers.info
Mon Dec 19 16:08:56 UTC 2011


Op do 15 dec 2011 14:11:13 schreef Larry Rosenman:
> 
> I've set up VirtualBox 4.0.14 on my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r228498)
> box, and have a FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT VM running underneath it.
> 
> While the VM is running, it doesn't keep time worth a flip.
> 
> This is even with the VirtualBox-Additions in it.
> 
> 1) is this expected/known?
> 2) What can we do to fix it?
> 
> What diagnostics do you need?
> 
> I *CAN* provide ssh access to both the host and the guest.
> 
> 

I noticed that assigning 2 processors to the virtual environment produces this 
problem, where assigning only 1 produces no significant problems keeping time.

Note that this was under 8.x, I have not tried assigning more than one 
processor since then.


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