Re: [Xen-users] Clock (time) issue

[Mark Adams <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steven,

Both are 64bit. dom0 is amd64 and windows server 2008 R2 has to be 64
bit.

Regards,
Mark

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:08:07AM -0500, Steven Timm wrote:
> Mark, are your domU's 32-bit or 64-bit, likewise with dom0?
> We have seen the domU clock on a 32-bit instance jump forward
> by 40-80 minutes for no good reason and stay stuck there until
> the outside world catches up (and any time set commands fail).
> But never saw dom0 clock jump.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Adams wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Im running Xen 4.0.1-rc6 Debian squeeze with pvops 2.6.32-21 kernel.
>> Today I noticed (when kerberos to the domain controllers stopped
>> working..) that the clock was 50 minutes out in dom0 -- This caused the
>> HVM windows domain controllers to have the wrong time.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a kernel issue or a xen issue, but the only
>> thing related is I can see the following in the kernel log:
>>
>> Oct  2 18:50:33 havhost1 kernel: [623480.977748] Clocksource tsc unstable 
>> (delta = -2999660303788 ns)
>>
>> But I also see in the dmesg log that xen is using it's own clock.
>>
>> [    7.676563] Switching to clocksource xen
>>
>> I can't identify anything else in the logs to indicate when the time
>> might have changed. I have a few other dom0 at the same level that
>> haven't decided to change the time.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm whether xen controls the time or the kernel? Also
>> when I corrected the time in dom0 it was still wrong in HVM domU -- How
>> long does it take for this to propogate? (I rebooted the VM's to correct
>> it immediately).
>>
>> Any other pointers on how to ensure stability of clocks from dom0 to
>> domU HVM hosts (and pv for that matter..) would be appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
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