http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/ Living Digitally and Electronically Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:38:17 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-397141   Virtualized LoadRunner? (Part 3 of 3) by LoadRunner TnT Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:41:12 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/#comment-397141 [...] FreeBSD 6.0 on VMware Server Time and Clock Slow Down [from My Digital Life] [...] [...] FreeBSD 6.0 on VMware Server Time and Clock Slow Down [from My Digital Life] [...]

]]> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-311134 Permasalahan Time di FreeBSD GuestOS pada VMware « Admin Juga Manusia 2.0 ™ Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:02:58 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/#comment-311134 [...] 2. Tambahkan baris ‘hint.apic.0.disabled=1′ di /boot/loader.conf. Solusi ini saya dapat dari link ini. [...] [...] 2. Tambahkan baris ‘hint.apic.0.disabled=1′ di /boot/loader.conf. Solusi ini saya dapat dari link ini. [...]

]]> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-76412 Planeta Gentoo » Comment on FreeBSD 6.0 on VMware Server Time and Clock Slow Down by Planeta FreeBSD » Clock in a VMWare FreeBSD Guest Runs More Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:20:50 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/#comment-76412 [...] Original post by Comments for My Digital Life [...] [...] Original post by Comments for My Digital Life [...]

]]> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-76193 Planeta FreeBSD » Clock in a VMWare FreeBSD Guest Runs More Slowly or Quickly Than Real Time… Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:08:11 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/#comment-76193 [...] ;umm, seems that I am little bit enthusiastic about knowing all those unix-like system recently, since I didn’t pay ;much time to know ;them before. right now I’ve set up ;3 VMs with vmware‘>CentOS4.4 , Gentoo Linux 2006 ;(since it is able to run in Sun SPARC machine), FreeBSD 6.1 , and going to setup one more VM with Sun Solaris 10 x86 (11/2006 version) ;arch to get familiar with all those main stream unix-like OSes.while toying around with Gentoo and FreeBSD, I did found that Gentoo seems had no problems on the clock issue happened in my CentOS as well as FC6 as described in my previous post. but FreeBSD did encounter this problem again. the clock is much slower than real one on the host OS.by searching to Google, I found this post saying about FreeBSD clock is slowing when acting in VMWare as guest OS, and it was also the same reason in Linux that the OS is using APIC to get the clock for the time. the solution is to disable APIC on the boot time by editing /boot/loader.conf and put a line:hint.apic.0.disabled=1in the file and reboot FreeBSD, or to ;’to comment out the “device apic” line in the kernel config file and rebuild the kernel’. also by doing so will loose the ability for the guest OS to run in SMP mode. pretty same as what ;happened in Linux. After doing the loader.conf modification and reboot the FreeBSD VM, the clock is back to normal without problem. by installing VMWare-Tools into FreeBSD vm, verifying that vmware-guestd is running and also in the FreeBSD guest OS’s .vmx file, set toos.syncTime to TRUE, the time in my FreeBSD vm is back to normal and won’t need NTP to sync the real time, just like what I did in my CentOS in previous post. It’s pretty cool that I can run all those 3 VMs with different unix-like OSes simutaniously in my Windows 2003 R2 Server with 2GB RAM. I gave ;each guest OS 384mb RAM to run and thanks to VMWare Workstation’s dynamic memory allocation technology, while my testing of those 3 VMs I can still have more than 1 gb RAM for my host OS. I think it should be no problem for me to boot up one more Solaris 10 VM in the same time. The goal is to understanding all those system and networking administration tasks on those different main-stream unix-like OSes and further more to host web applications and database systems on them. maybe than trying to develop some Mono projects ;to run ASP.NET websites ;upon them. ;I’ve already found that it’s pretty different on the admin of ; Linux and BSD systems since it’s pretty different on the directory structures as well as those admin commands and locations of various config files. wondering if it’s also different ;in a Solaris OS… anyway, it’s always nice to learn new things, and I am enjoying it on my weekend… Technorati Tags: linux ;, ;freebsd, ;solaris, ;CentOS, ;ntp, ;clock, ;kernel , ;vmware, ;APIC ; [...] [...] ;umm, seems that I am little bit enthusiastic about knowing all those unix-like system recently, since I didn’t pay ;much time to know ;them before. right now I’ve set up ;3 VMs with vmware‘>CentOS4.4 , Gentoo Linux 2006 ;(since it is able to run in Sun SPARC machine), FreeBSD 6.1 , and going to setup one more VM with Sun Solaris 10 x86 (11/2006 version) ;arch to get familiar with all those main stream unix-like OSes.while toying around with Gentoo and FreeBSD, I did found that Gentoo seems had no problems on the clock issue happened in my CentOS as well as FC6 as described in my previous post. but FreeBSD did encounter this problem again. the clock is much slower than real one on the host OS.by searching to Google, I found this post saying about FreeBSD clock is slowing when acting in VMWare as guest OS, and it was also the same reason in Linux that the OS is using APIC to get the clock for the time. the solution is to disable APIC on the boot time by editing /boot/loader.conf and put a line:hint.apic.0.disabled=1in the file and reboot FreeBSD, or to ;’to comment out the “device apic” line in the kernel config file and rebuild the kernel’. also by doing so will loose the ability for the guest OS to run in SMP mode. pretty same as what ;happened in Linux. After doing the loader.conf modification and reboot the FreeBSD VM, the clock is back to normal without problem. by installing VMWare-Tools into FreeBSD vm, verifying that vmware-guestd is running and also in the FreeBSD guest OS’s .vmx file, set toos.syncTime to TRUE, the time in my FreeBSD vm is back to normal and won’t need NTP to sync the real time, just like what I did in my CentOS in previous post. It’s pretty cool that I can run all those 3 VMs with different unix-like OSes simutaniously in my Windows 2003 R2 Server with 2GB RAM. I gave ;each guest OS 384mb RAM to run and thanks to VMWare Workstation’s dynamic memory allocation technology, while my testing of those 3 VMs I can still have more than 1 gb RAM for my host OS. I think it should be no problem for me to boot up one more Solaris 10 VM in the same time. The goal is to understanding all those system and networking administration tasks on those different main-stream unix-like OSes and further more to host web applications and database systems on them. maybe than trying to develop some Mono projects ;to run ASP.NET websites ;upon them. ;I’ve already found that it’s pretty different on the admin of ; Linux and BSD systems since it’s pretty different on the directory structures as well as those admin commands and locations of various config files. wondering if it’s also different ;in a Solaris OS… anyway, it’s always nice to learn new things, and I am enjoying it on my weekend… Technorati Tags: linux ;, ;freebsd, ;solaris, ;CentOS, ;ntp, ;clock, ;kernel , ;vmware, ;APIC ; [...]

]]> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/comment-page-1/#comment-76148 Rexiology... : Clock in a VMWare FreeBSD Guest Runs More Slowly or Quickly Than Real Time... Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:30:45 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/04/12/freebsd-60-on-vmware-server-time-and-clock-slow-down/#comment-76148 [...] , vmware, APIC   Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | live it! Published 07-01-2007 08:28 by Rex Filed under Useful Tools, Information Technology,Linux [...] [...] , vmware, APIC   Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | live it! Published 07-01-2007 08:28 by Rex Filed under Useful Tools, Information Technology,Linux [...]

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