On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
> I'm running vbox 3.2.8 on a 64bit windows 7 host with a FreeBSD 8.1
> i386 guest.
>
> While attempting to upgrade the vm to track FreeBSD-STABLE I have to
> issue several build commands inside the FreeBSD system source.
>
> Building world, and building the new kernel activates a time tracker
> so that when the processes are done, the system will tell you how long
> the build process took
>
> I'm getting my FreeBSD guest telling me that time is running
> backwards.
>
> I'm getting usec numbers smaller when I finish some tasks than when
> I start.
>
> Time on the windows host is running normally.
>
> Other NON-BSD guests seem unaffected.
>
> Im running the extended motherboard option to say that the clock is
> NOT in GMT. The FreeBSD OS was configured at install to match.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
>
> Rance
Rance,
The fBSD Handbook http://bit.ly/BSDNews-Kern-hz mentions setting the
kern.hz = 100 in /boot/loader.conf because the virtual clock tick runs
slower. The system FreeBSD under virtualization misses tick counts
thus giving the appearance of running backwards.
Regards,
Mikel King
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