[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-users] Clock time off in windows
Didn't mean to go off list with my previous response... As EST is GMT-5 and EDT is GMT-4, I don't see why you would be off by more than one hour unless you were off by 4 or 5 because Windows is set to EDT or EST (if the hardware clock is running at UTC, but *nix is showing you EDT, see output below). [virtadmin@virt1 ~]$ /sbin/hwclock Tue 06 Oct 2009 09:34:20 AM EDT -0.562747 seconds [virtadmin@virt1 ~]$ /sbin/hwclock --utc Tue 06 Oct 2009 09:34:23 AM EDT -0.369329 seconds [virtadmin@virt1 ~]$ /sbin/hwclock --localtime Tue 06 Oct 2009 01:34:26 PM EDT -0.014150 seconds As can be seen here, hwclock shows EDT and the right time, but only because it either A) defaults to assuming --UTC or B) knows the system is in UTC based on the appropriate setting. The BIOS actually shows a time of 05:34:xx (24hr). When I told hwclock that the system clock was on local time (GMT-4), it showed me a time that was off by 4 hours (not 3). Windows should automatically do NTP, so I am not sure that ntp will work with your current domU config (I am not 100% certain it will work for any HVM config, for that matter). However, I know it is possible to tell *nix to make the system clock use local time and it is possible to make Windows treat the system clock as UTC; either of these should help if the problem is that they aren't using the same option. Unfortunately, I can't tell you off the top of my head how to make either change, so you will have to search. Alternatively, try setting up Windows Time to use one of the ntp servers from pool.ntp.org, I am guessing you are in NA, so see http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/north-america. If this solves your problem, then maybe it wasn't related to UTC vs ExT after all. Lastly, assuming NTP isn't working and you can't find the other options, there is an option in the domU config for whether to provide the domU system clock time in local or UTC, but I don't know for sure how it works because it doesn't work on the version I am running. Dustin -----Original Message----- From: Robbie A. Garrett [mailto:RGarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:26 To: Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Clock time off in windows hwclock on xen domU shows EDT. Windows is using EST time. ________________________________________ From: Dustin Henning [Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:07 AM To: Robbie A. Garrett Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Clock time off in windows That depends why it is off. If it is off by exactly 3 hours to the second because you live in GMT +/-3 and your system clock is on UTC per *nix default, then you can either tell *nix to use GMT +/-3 instead of UTC so that Windows will see the appropriate time, or you can find the registry setting for Windows to use UTC so Windows will show the appropriate time. However, if it is off by ~3 hours because it has gotten off over time, then you will either need to fight with xen to keep the time right or, if possible, use Windows Time to sync with the appropriate NTP pool (I say if possible because an HVM may not support the domU setting its own time, but I have mine set up this way whether that is why they are right or not). Good luck, Dustin From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robbie A. Garrett Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 09:51 To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Xen-users] Clock time off in windows Hey all, my clock in my windows 2003 server VM running in xen is off by three hours. any idea how i can fix this? _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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