Out of curiosity, can you share why running in a different time was important
for you? It does strike me that we could probably build support for this in
the OS — changing the base offset at any rate, if there is a compelling
justification for it.
- Garrett
> On Mar 22, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Peter Toth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just a quick report back on this, for now I have managed to build a KVM
> SmartOS instance and provision zones into it - it works like a charm.
> On top of this I was able to just image the original zones in SDC and point
> the virtual KVM SmartOS to look for images in SDC.
>
> Deploy the same SDC images and test them with time changes within KVM.
>
> I am amazed how straightforward this was!
>
> P
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Peter Toth <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> That's a very interesting one! Compiled it up on SmartOS and unfortunately
> core dumps.
> I am going to try it on a Linux box to verify whether it will work for our
> applications (tomcat, nginx, php-fpm).
>
> If it fails then I will try to set up a separate SmartOS box just for the
> time related tests...
>
> Thanks heaps!
> P
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Scott McWhirter
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> There's also libfaketime, if it's just for a few processes.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Peter Toth via smartos-discuss
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Thanks Garrett, yes it needs to be a totally different time and SmartOS
> operating system.
> Seems that my only option is to build a KVM SmartOS machine (SmartOS inside
> SmartOS KVM).
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You can change the timezone (offset) but the global clock can only be changed
> in the global zone.
>
> If you have some particular need to run in a totally different time you can
> use kvm. The clock will still tick in synch with the global zone but you can
> set any base time you like. This cannot be done in a native zone.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 19, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Peter Toth via smartos-discuss
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any method to fake/change time in a SmartOS zone
>> (non-global zone)?
>>
>> Thanks
>> P
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