I've also run Smokeping on FreeBSD running inside VMWare on a Windows box on multiple occasions. No issues... except adjusting a boot time setting in FreeBSD so the clock would work properly in the VM.
Frank Wegner wrote: > Hi smokeping Experts, > > > > I like to know if you ever tried running smokeping inside a VMware > virtual machine (Debian Linux guest OS). > > > > The effect I see is that when running smokeping on a physical box the > network is fine, but when running smokeping from inside a virtual > machine a lot of packets appear to be dropped. However, the network > applications itself all seem to be fine. > > > > My guess is that maybe smokeping is very time sensitive. The virtual > machine clock has time jumps and irregularities in the millisecond range > (up to 200 ms). So how well does smokeping cope with a system clock > which does not constantly show the correct time? Could this explain that > some packets appear as dropped (they could just have arrived at > unexpected times)? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > F > > > > Best Regards. > > Frank Wegner > http://www.vmware.com > > VMware Global Inc., Branch Office Germany > > Place: Unterschleissheim, Freisinger Str. 3, County Court Munich HRB 149743 > > President: Diane Greene > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
