What IS the right NTP behaviour ?

[dirkx at webweaving.org]

> On 23 Sep 2015, at 20:04, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
>> One concern I keep running into:  Using NTP in VMs that are frequently suspended/resumed.  Though I suppose this may be covered by your 'workstation' scenario (just step it after VM resume when you see the large skew).
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> I would assume your hypervisor would sync the clock upon VM events. Does it not?

We have a fair number of problems; both with suspended VMs and moving VMs - the hypervisor does the right thing - but things like can still spot a step change; even backward.

Dw.