[BlueOnyx:04084] Re: NTP etc

[Jason Ozin]

Chris said:

> The fix here is to pass the following kernel arguments:
> processor.max_cstate=1 clock=pmtmr divider=10

> Placing those arguments into the kernel line of your grub boot file 
> (/boot/grub/menu.lst) should compensate.

> That will help your guest OS actually keep time, rather than having to 
> be beat over the head every 30 minutes and still drift.

Chris that is excellent, many thanks. I was looking for a more elegant
answer but the answer from Microsoft Hyper-V team to add clock=pit to grub
proved wrong. Thus I gave up on the idea. Thanks for giving me the correct
arguments for grub - I'll try them out instead of the cron NTP bodge.

Jason