[ntp:questions] Sync issue
David Woolley
david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Sun Sep 12 15:33:51 UTC 2010
Andy Wright wrote:
>>
> Virtual machines usually have their own RTC and NTP is essential for
> logging system information in conjunction with NTP synchronization logs
> to adhere to the policies of businesses or organizations.
Virtual machines have a virtualisation of the physical machine's clock.
Most software timing does not use the RTC, except at boot up, although I
seem to remember that there is an option of using the RTC for ntpd and a
virtual machine's RTC is more likely to reflect the underlying physical
machine's RTC than the software clocks are to track each other.
To the extent that there are legal requirements, I feel that is an issue
that the virtual machine environments need to address, not somthing they
should force onto the users.
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