Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Williams
Hi Guys, Well this helped sort of, the clocks are running only a little fast at this point (roughly seven minutes gained over 12 hours), but now for some reason, ntpd is not resetting the clocks at all, despite multiple good time sources, it was working fine before the kern.hz change. Any

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-22 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:08:30AM -0800, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Well this helped sort of, the clocks are running only a little fast at this point (roughly seven minutes gained over 12 hours), but now for some reason, ntpd is not resetting the clocks at all, despite multiple good time

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-22 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:01:51AM +, Adrian Wontroba wrote: I'm afraid that most of the salient details are inaccessible at work, but I found this necessary to get sort of acceptable[*] time keeping in FreeBSD guests under VMware on Windows. Sorry, I've got VMware on the brain at present,

FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Williams
Hi Folks, I am trying to run FreeBSD 7 on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Server 2003, on a Dell 2950. I am having a problem with the system clock running excessively fast, I initially tried installing 7.1 release but received a nearly continuous stream of the calcru: runtime went

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Jeffrey Williams j...@sailorfej.net wrote: Hi Folks, I am trying to run FreeBSD 7 on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Server 2003, on a Dell 2950. I am having a problem with the system clock running excessively fast, I initially tried installing 7.1

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2009-01-21 20:41, Jeffrey Williams wrote: I am having a problem with the system clock running excessively fast, I initially tried installing 7.1 release but received a nearly continuous stream of the calcru: runtime went backward errors Add the following to your /boot/loader.conf file:

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Proto
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Jeffrey Williams j...@sailorfej.net wrote: Hi Folks, I am trying to run FreeBSD 7 on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Server 2003, on a Dell 2950. I am having a problem with the system clock running excessively fast, I initially tried installing 7.1

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Williams
Hi Guys, Thanks for kern.hz suggestion, but according loader.conf in the /boot/defaults directory, kern.hz is already set to 100, is this overridden somewhere else? Thanks, Jeff Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Jeffrey Williams j...@sailorfej.net wrote: Hi Folks,

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2009-01-21 09:10:16PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: However, I am not sure what is at fault here, VMware or FreeBSD... I'd guess the latter, since neither Linux nor Windows guest OSes seem to have any such timing problems. Actually I have encountered such problems in mixed-bit environments

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:30:26PM -0800, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Hi Guys, Thanks for kern.hz suggestion, but according loader.conf in the /boot/defaults directory, kern.hz is already set to 100, is this overridden somewhere else? Thats a bit misleading, the commented out value isnt

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2009-01-21 21:30, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Thanks for kern.hz suggestion, but according loader.conf in the /boot/defaults directory, kern.hz is already set to 100, is this overridden somewhere else? Look closer, it is commented out in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. :)

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Steven Hartland
Not read all the thread but if you haven't already just set the timer to TSC fixes things here. Regards Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event

Re: FreeBSD 7, runaway clock as guest OS on Microsoft Virtual Server

2009-01-21 Thread Jeffrey Williams
Hi Guys, Ok it is set, it does seem a little better, the clocks are still running ahead by an average of about 30-40 seconds, but they seem to have slowed down enough for ntpd to maintain the time by slewing, instead of stepping. I did get a fresh batch of calcru errors from one of the