Nov
2
Problem w/ FreeBSD Clock Slew under VMWare Server
I got FreeBSD running under VMWare Server on my X40. The only problem is, the clock was all over the place, and openntpd didn’t help a bit (it relies on a fairly consistent clock).
The problem is fairly well-understood, just google for “freebsd clock vmware”. The VMWare Utility and the config line didn’t help me, as the clock was running slow by around a few seconds every minute. So I setup a cron job and use ntpdate to query the Hong Kong Observatory’s (my favourite HKSAR Govt Dept!) atomic clock server stdtime.gov.hk every 15 minutes. I think I should install an NTP server on the X40 and get the VM to sync from there every 5 minutes, so that it would work whether I have network access or not.