Re: [CentOS-virt] patched kernel addressing timekeeping issues under vmware

2009-02-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > People at vmware have provided patches for RHEL 5 that aim to fix > timekeeping issues in vmware guests. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463573 (snip) > They were hoping to get them into the RHEL 5.3 kernel but > unfortunately th

[CentOS-virt] patched kernel addressing timekeeping issues under vmware

2008-12-05 Thread Akemi Yagi
People at vmware have provided patches for RHEL 5 that aim to fix timekeeping issues in vmware guests. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463573 Description of problem (excerpt) : "In a virtual environment, timekeeping for RHEL 64 bit kernels can be problematic, since time is kept by co