On Dec 8, 2008, at 03:29, Michael Thayer wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Running OpenSolaris under VirtualBox 2.0.6 under Tiger >> on a MacBook. >> >> It appears that when the MacBook sleeps, VM's clock likewise >> sleeps. This morning Solaris was several hours slow. > ... >> Do I need to run NTP client? > The VirtualBox Guest Additions contain a time synchronisation daemon > which should deal with this. > I'll retract my initial delight at this. While the daemon works as apparently designed, it adjusts the time gradually, perhaps 5 seconds per minute. So if I put the laptop host to sleep for a half hour, the daemon will take 6 hours to synchronize the clock. Not very satisfactory.
While I recognize the rationale for not making large abrupt adjustments to the clock, the Rip van Winkle effect is something systems and applications in the laptop environment must deal with. (I still think mouse itegration and display auto-resize are great. How do they add entries to the host menu?) Thanks, gil _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
