Even with networking I think there are other senarios where this would be useful such as no access to an NTP server due to firewall rules or no internal NTP or simply an admin without much knowledge of NTP.
HyperV host very likely has good time from AD and it would be good if the Linux VM just synced its time from the host after a vanilla install (just like windows VMs). That would require no configuration and probably save a ton of support traffic. However this patch requires a module parameter which really negates the zero configuration argument. Also please don't make this the default until the timesync component is more comprehensive and provides a stable time of similar quality to NTP. VMware has put a lot of effort into host -> guest timesync so I think there is a case for some form of host based time sync on HyperV. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
