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Old 06-09-2006, 09:43 AM   #1
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Exclamation Time synchronisation of xntp doesn’t work well


Hello,

I’m a bit lost concerning xntp on suse 9.0 el with sp2. I hoop that somebody can help me with this.

The problem is that I have an vmware partition with suse that should work as an ntp server, so that a couple of clients can sync there time. This vmware partition is running on a ESX server. First I had problem that I couldn’t sync the suse ntp server with an other ntp server at all. On the internet I found a solution that I should remove the local clock in the ntp.conf file. That did work, but not well. You can see the output of de ntp log file below. It’s strange that the ntp server lost his connection and reconnect within the hour. It does this all the time. And I cannot find a solution for this problem. Who can help me!


9 Jun 13:58:27 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.62, stratum 2
9 Jun 13:56:05 ntpd[22653]: time reset -141.941537 s
9 Jun 14:05:43 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.63, stratum 2
9 Jun 14:11:05 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.63, stratum 2
9 Jun 14:11:05 ntpd[22653]: no servers reachable
9 Jun 15:09:09 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.63, stratum 2
9 Jun 15:06:47 ntpd[22653]: time reset -142.551115 s
9 Jun 15:15:23 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.63, stratum 2
9 Jun 15:19:43 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.62, stratum 2
9 Jun 15:25:06 ntpd[22653]: no servers reachable
9 Jun 16:21:58 ntpd[22653]: synchronized to 10.11.1.63, stratum 2

Whith kind regards,
Runnee
 
Old 06-09-2006, 11:49 AM   #2
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You can't run an NTP server in a virtual machine. One of the characteristics of a virtual machine is that it doesn't provide guaranteed time, because it's not always running.

From: http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues

NTP was not designed to run under a virtual machine. It requires a high resolution system clock, with response times to clock interrupts that are serviced with a high level of accuracy. No virtual machine is capable of meeting these requirements.

Run NTP on the base OS of the machine, and then have your various guest OSes take advantage of the good clock that is created on the system."


From: http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/end...p?p_faqid=1318

"The most accurate way to keep guest operating system time synchronized with real time is to use the VMware Tools time synchronization function. You should not use the Windows Time service or other form of clock synchronization meant for physical machines to set the time in the guest operating system.

Unlike a physical machine, a virtual machine is not always loaded and running on a CPU. A virtual machine's clock can't run when the virtual machine is not running. When the virtual machine gets to run on a CPU again, the virtual machine's clock needs to catch up to real time."
 
Old 06-12-2006, 04:08 AM   #3
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Thanx macemoneta!

With this information I can search for an other solution.
 
Old 08-31-2007, 04:53 PM   #4
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runnee is right. NTP is useless for correcting the large skew that will be found on a virtual machine.

VMWare's Official whitepaper on the matter can be downloaded here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf
 
Old 08-31-2007, 05:01 PM   #5
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Petcherd, you realize you responded to a thread that was resolved over 14 months ago, right? Did you miss your afternoon coffee?
 
Old 09-02-2007, 01:16 PM   #6
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No, it just seemed like an incompletely resolved issue to me, so I added one more reply. I'm something of a Linux n00b, and when I'm looking for someone else's solution(s) to a problem I'm seeing, I often expand my search parameters to look back more than a year.

I figure someone else with the same profile might appreciate the additional help.
 
Old 09-02-2007, 01:28 PM   #7
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No, it just seemed like an incompletely resolved issue to me, so I added one more reply.
OK, re-read post #2 carefully.
 
  


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