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ErnieTheGeek
Asked: 2010-12-04 09:59:14 +0800 CST

Hyper-V Host/OES2 Guest - Guest Time doesnt stay in sync

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So we've finally migrated from our old Netware environment to a virtualized OES2 system.

Everything is working with the exception of time sync. On boot the time syncs up like normal. But I very quickly GAIN lots of time. About 15 seconds per minute. The only easy resolution I've found is to run a cron job every 2 minutes to sync the time against an on premises time server. This works fairly well as far as the day to day functionality goes but its a bit aggravating.

On the same host we're running 8 Windows Server VMs that are all working fine with no additional configuration.

virtualization hyper-v novell

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  1. Best Answer

    A couple of suggestions (based on the many many OES2 servers I have installed )

    1) in boot.msg file under /boot/grub/ on the boot options line before the term showopts add the term "clock=pmtmr" without quotes - reboot server.

    2) Use NTP - in the NTP config - choose a decent time source and also remove reference local undisciplined clock - make sure ntp is set to startup (chkconfig ntpd on)

    Your time issues will be drastically reduced

    Hope this helps

    Brett

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