Fwd: Lousy timekeeping in VirtualBox 4.0.14

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Fri Dec 16 15:42:56 UTC 2011


Hi!

> I've set up VirtualBox 4.0.14 on my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r228498)
> box, and have a FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT VM running underneath it.
> 
> While the VM is running, it doesn't keep time worth a flip.
> 
> This is even with the VirtualBox-Additions in it.
> 
> 1) is this expected/known?

I have seen similar behaviour on other systems (Linux+Qemu)
and other versions of vbox+fbsd, so: I'm not surprised.

>From what I've heard, its a common virtualization issue.

> 2) What can we do to fix it?
> 
> What diagnostics do you need?
> 
> I *CAN* provide ssh access to both the host and the guest.

I'd be willing to provide access to test hosts as well.

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