NTPD not keeping time

[John Webster]

--On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:23:17 -0800 Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
>> Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I
>> failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a
>> virtual machine.
> 
> Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before.
> 
> One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual  machine at all, only in the parent or host OS.  VMs depend on the  host OS to provide the timekeeping, and it is known that systems  running inside a VM may experience timing glitches as
> a result of  running inside the machine emulation.



<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.1.>
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