Summary: | VMWare ESX Server 3/AMD64 Strange Timing issues | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | HarveyAPS <harvey> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | harvey, steeeeeveee |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2007.0 | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
HarveyAPS
2007-05-30 14:37:44 UTC
This is not a Gentoo problem. It is a known ESX issue (I have it here on all 800 virtual servers we are using with VMWare ESX 2.5.x and with 3.x. In RHAS 4u2 and in various Windows editions). You can read more on that issue at the knowledge base of VMWare. Quick fix/workaround: You need to install the latest VMWare tools and then enable on the VM to use ESX as the source for the time sync (in Virtual Center select the VM and then edit the properties and then go to tab Options and then select Advanced and then press button Configuration Parameters ... and then add/change tools.syncTime to TRUE). This will solve your problem. As said above, this needs to be fixed by vmware folks, not by Gentoo. Sorry. The fix for this issue is to add the following to the kernel boot parameters: notsc noapic nolapic udev acpi=off Once this is done the clock will no longer drift. |