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Re: Time is off by an hour in my XEN vm

by Age_M :: Rate this Message:

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Hello Frank,

in my HVM WinXP domU config file ( /etc/xen/winxp) I use:

rtc_timeoffset=3600

Maybe this does the trick for you too.

Greetz Holger

Frank Groeneveld wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm hiring a XEN virtual machine running Ubuntu at a hosting company.
> My XEN virtual machine is hosted on a server which has some other VM's
> running on it. They all use ubuntu or debian. After a crash sometime
> last week, the systemclock of my VM is off by an hour (it says 19:49,
> although it's 18:49 here now). The other VM's don't have this problem,
> and according to the admin of the server, the server clock is running
> correctly and my XEN config is correct also (it's not set to locatime
> or anything).
>
> I checked everything. Timezone is correct (in /etc/timezone), the
> localtime symlink is correct (/etc/localtime). UTC=yes in
> /etc/defaults/rcS, although changing it to no doesn't make a difference.
>
> The admin of the server fixed it temporally by running:
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock
> And setting the date/time manually. Every hour the time is now set
> through ntpdate.
>
> Does anybody know what's wrong with the vm? How can I fix this?
>
> Frank Groeneveld
>
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