time goes slow in VmWare

Va'clav Haisman v.haisman at sh.cvut.cz
Mon Mar 19 16:02:23 UTC 2007


Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have a problem with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE in VmWare Server on Windows
> 2003 host.
> 
> Time is a hour slow for a day.
> 
> I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in loader.conf
> I've tried all possible values in kern.timecounter.hardware.
> Nothing helps.
> 
> I've found it's not only my problem:
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=26034&tstart=0
> 
> ntpd does not help. I think because it's too rude time for NTP.
> 
> Any hints please.
I have same problem under MS Virtual Server R2. I did not find any way
how to solve this. Instead, I worked around this using ntpdate every
five minutes in cron job and I also set kern.hz=2000 in
/boot/loader.conf which helps a little bit.

--
VH


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