Xen Guests / NTP best practice?

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 29 November 2013 18:43:32 +0100 Roger Pau Monné 
<roger.pau at citrix.com> wrote:

> There have been some improvements in 10 regarding timekeeping, now
> FreeBSD makes use of the PV timer and PV clock when running under HVM,
> which should be more stable.
>
> Could you try if your issues with ntp are reproducible on 10?

Sure, I'll give 10 a go. Does the above mean for a VM you don't need to run 
ntp? (i.e. it'll stay in sync with dom0 / the XenServer?) - or is ntp still 
necessary?


Likewise do you know if there is any recommended solution for 9.x (which is 
the bulk of our VM's).

Thanks,

-Karl