On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 20:24 UTC, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > Because of the above, I've drawn the conclusion that "running ntpd's in the > other DomUs/guest VMs is almost entirely pointless".
One oft-quoted reason I hear is "we don't control the Dom0" whether it's corporate orgchart separation, or leased VMs. The VMware suggestion to run ntpd is an admission of engineering defeat. While lurking on a conference call run by irc.freenode.net #freeswitch people, someone mentioned maximizing the use of sub-$1000 16-core servers drawing less than 2W with colo loss-leader offers for 100Mbit connectivity and 2W power for less than $250/mo. The speaker was turning those into a dozen or more Windows Server VMs each leased to a different customer and mentioned the Microsoft VM solution didn't have problems with time in VMs, they get it from the supervisor (akin to Dom0). I'm sure programs can detect virtualization, but the point is VoIP softswitches do care about latency and probably about system clock jitter, another example alongside the lvm approach demonstrating VM timekeeping can be respectable, it's all about the particular virtualization software and its integration with guest OSes. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions