Re: xen vm not keeping date/time properly

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Jose R R wrote:
2009/1/22 Ryan Golhar <golharam@xxxxxxxxx>:
I've seen a ton of messages like this but no solution that works.  I have a
64-bit RHEL 5 machine running multiple guests.  Dom0 keeps time using ntp
and works well.

I initially had the virtual machines do the same thing, but they failed to
keep time properly.  I've since disabled ntp on the guests and haven't found
a solution.

Those organizations that offer Virtual Private Servers (VPS) would not
be in business if they had not found a solution to the problem you
describe ;)  As an instance, using such technologies as HyperVM (<
http://lxlabs.com/software/hypervm/ >) they offer their clients *any*
of a variety of Xen DomU GNU/Linux distributions.

You may want to try the following procedure (from an CentOS list):

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Put this in /etc/sysctl.conf :

xen.independent_wallclock = 1

and then execute sysctl.

What happens then is that the domU will do it's own timekeeping and no
longer follow the dom0. Now this also means that you need to run a
ntpd inside the domU to make sure it's clock keeps syncronised.
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< http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2008-January/000185.html >

Best regards.


Yes, I've seen this. There is not indication on whether this setting should be inside the guest or on the host. MY guess was the guest. I put this in, restart the guest and it had no effect. I believe (from google searching) this only applies to paravirtualized machines. Mine is fully virtualized.

Any other ideas? :)

Ryan

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