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Title: Virtual PC & time keeping
Post by: FrancisT on January 10, 2010, 07:49:38 AM

I am running SME 7.4 in a MS Virtual PC Machine under Windows Server R2 64 bit, and time keeping in SME is non-existant.  (At 7.49 pm, 10 Jan it says 8.48 am 11 Jan.)

Manually running ntpdate au.pool.ntp.org, I get an NTP Socket is in use, exiting.

I have tried all the VM fixes, but to no avail.

Any suggestions gratefully received, thanks.

Title: Re: Virtual PC & time keeping
Post by: Stefano on January 10, 2010, 10:48:36 AM

IMHO it's a M$ issue, so you should ask them ;-)

Title: Re: Virtual PC & time keeping
Post by: Knuddi on January 10, 2010, 02:26:43 PM

Its a general problem with VM's - VMWare has the same. I am currently using VmWare ESXi 4 and have after having installed Vmware tools had no issue. The NTP deamon has problem with the jitter it sees on the clock and therefore it fails.

Title: Re: Virtual PC & time keeping
Post by: Stefano on January 10, 2010, 02:50:23 PM

FrancisT:

read here (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B918461&x=19&y=9)

anyway, I would suggest you to use virtualbox or vmware [server|player] to virtualize linux o.s.

my 2c