Virtualbox: time sync

Mikhail Tsatsenko m.tsatsenko at gmail.com
Sun May 26 09:54:16 UTC 2013


2013/5/26 Marc Fournier <scrappy at hub.org>:
Hi
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> First, thank you for the answer about switching from straight bridge to using a tap device ... that made a *huge* difference ... I'm not able to actually run a build world within the environment without having the whole machine lock up ...
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> So, went next step ... now that I can successfully build, I added the Guest Additions ... from what I've read, its what is required in order to get time sync to work between host and guest ... but doesn't quite seem to do it:
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> # ssh ams "(uptime; date)" ; date
>  1:55AM  up 1 day, 20:30, 0 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.07, 0.08
> Sun May 26 01:55:16 ADT 2013
> Sun May 26 04:57:57 UTC 2013
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> kldstat shows the vboxguest.ko module has been loaded ... I have ntpd disabled, so I don't believe I'm *supposed* to need it, correct?
try setting sysctl kern.eventtimer.idletick=1
It should resolve the issue
> Are there known issues with this, or have I missed a setting somewhere?   Or should I actually need ntpd to be running even with the Guest additions?
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> Thanks ...
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