False System Time if running on MS Virtual Server

[GWAdmin]

Hello there,

I am running Proxmox Mailgateway on a MS Virtual Server 2005, but i have a Problem,

The Mailgateway is running fine BUT

The System Time is not correct, and i have no possibility to synchronize with an NTP, is ist possible to sync the Time with the Host-System of the Virtual Server??? :?:

Regards

Andreas

 

[dietmar]

Unfortunately thats a known Problem - MS Virtual Server does not support newer Linux 2.6 kernels very well (same with VMWare).

- Dietmar

 

[i1h9lu]

Hi,

We are running Proxmon on VMWare ESX 2.5 and we are using NTP.

The time on the Proxmox differs very strong and we have to update it 5 to 6 times a day via NTP.

I would like to place a little shell script under "/etc/cron.hourly" to have an automation.

On the webinterface, i select "System->Time->save" and the time is updated via NTP.

If i do a "/etc/init.d/ntpdate restart|reload|force-reload" or a "/etc/init.d/ntp-server restart|force-reload" on the command line, nothing happend.

How can i update the NTP-time on the command line?

Thanks and

 

[dietmar]

Thats a known problem, i.e. its a bug in VMWare.

VMWare does not work well with kernels newer than 2.6.8 (they are working on a fix).

Some people reportet that everything works fine if you do a Suspend/Resume just after you restarted proxmox.

Please try that.

- Dietmar

 

[GWAdmin]

Hi there, we found out, that if you point to a server on your local network (e.g. server01 or IP-Adress) it should work, but we set this entry to a real server in the same network, not to an virtual server

it dont work if you are pointing to a real server wich runs this virtual system !!

regards

Thats a known problem, i.e. its a bug in VMWare.

VMWare does not work well with kernels newer than 2.6.8 (they are working on a fix).

Some people reportet that everything works fine if you do a Suspend/Resume just after you restarted proxmox.

Please try that.

- Dietmar

 

[dietmar]

The above Suspend/Resume hack should work with VMWare, but not with MS Virtual Server.

- Dietmar

 

[i1h9lu]

Hi,

as described by Dietmar:
After a restart i've done a suspend/resume and now it works fine.

I am quite sure, that VMWare is working on a fix. :wink:

Thanks for your help.
I find it very good, that you answer always so fast.