Hardy Heron slow clock

Pilgrim57

Pilgrim57

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Hi - I'm running HH inside a VM & folding but the clock seems to slow losing upto 25 minutes a day. Never happened before with GG or EE. I have tried disabling auto synchronise but that doesn't make a difference.
Any help or pointers welcome. Thanks
 
What virtualisation product are you using? I have had to adjust a few parameters in VMWare to get the time "issue" fixed (or closer to fixed), not come across it with VirtualBox yet and I cant comment on Xen as I don't know :)
 
I'm using VMware server 1.05. Actual last time I ran it the clock kept time. There had been updates including ones for Gnome, maybe that has fixed the problem?
 
You may want to add 'noacpi' and 'noapic' to the end of the kernel boot parameters in grub. (VM

Press ESC when at the grub screen, then 'e' to edit the boot entry, then add to the end of the line, press enter when finished, and then 'b' to boot the highlighted entry...
If this works well, make it permanent by appending the same options to the kernel line of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

If this does not help, look into running ntpd within the VM, it should constantly compensate for problems like this.
The fixes that DRZ mentioned would also be worth a try, but they are parameters that can only be changed in VMWare ESX I believe, and not the server product.


//TrX
 
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Thanks for that - I will try it as a last resort as I'm still very much a learner.
The last update inc ones for Gnome & the problem has gone away (crosses fingers & hopes)
 
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