[CentOS] Xen clock drift

On Jan 9, 2008 12:35 PM, Jack Bailey <jack at internetguy.net> wrote:
>
> > A note by Johnny Hughes in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189
> > (comment 6644):
> >
> > "As a side note ... if the clock GAINS (runs to fast) time you should
> > be able to fix it with this:
> >
> > http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1591
> >
> > (by setting the correct host.cpukHz) and vmware tools should adjust a
> > clock that is too slow.
> >
> > Also see this blog entry concerning host.cpukHz:
> >
> > http://blog.autoedification.com/2006/11/vmware-guest-clock-runs-fast.html "
>
> Taking the advice from a few people and web pages, I made this change to
> grub.conf:
>
>         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 divider=10 clock=pit
>
> The clock is better but still not fixed.  It jumps forward less often.
>
> Jack

Despite the subject, the contents of this thread have drifted to
vmware.  No, you cannot use the divider= option for the xen kernel.
This is for the standard kernel only.

Akemi