Re: [Xen-users] date in domU

[Bob <maillists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 20:01 +0530, Anand Gupta wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Ralf Schmitt <ibm.tivoli@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         you could add this function to sysinit or the cron table in
>         all domU
>         systems.
> 
> The reason i asked because the vm's will be used by different
> customers and if a parameter existed it could be given to domU's
> config file itself to avoid editing of templates of different os's. 
> 
> -- 

Since ntp is so important, regardless of os, I just put

   echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock

at the top of each domU's ntp sysinit script.

This was the only way I found to get reliable time sync.  When I let the
domU's get their time from dom0, times would vary more than I found
acceptable.



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