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Hobbit on a virtual machine?

list Aaron Stranberg
Fri, 11 May 2007 18:18:17 +0000
Message-Id: <user-bbe7eed1aa1e@xymon.invalid>

Maybe you could sink to ntp from the vm, we do that for most of our vm's.  Also I am running hobbit on feisty with out many issues.-Aaron> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:53:07 -0500> From: user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit on a virtual machine?> > On 5/11/07, user-7c93eddf04c3@xymon.invalid> <user-7c93eddf04c3@xymon.invalid> wrote:> > The only problem we had with it was due to the time drifting... Because> > the VM does not run 100% of the time, the clock can fall behind.> > This was especially apparent on Fedora...> >> > See> > http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa;jsessionid=2A2133B9464ADCBE6B6>; > C37F578A998E8?messageID=382726&#382726> >> > I remember reading about clock drift, but not how to fix it.  That's> useful, thanks... :)> > I didn't run it very long.  I just wanted to see how well it worked,> with view to setting up a "disaster recovery" image so that if our> Hobbit server crashed and burned I'd be able to fire up a copy> *really* quickly on any available hardware, such as my laptop.  Given> that the server is a single-733MHz-cpu DL380, I figured a VMWare> instance on a 2GHz laptop ought to be able to keep up fairly well. :)> > Ralph Mitchell> >  > 
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