Unruh wrote:

> Why in the world would you use ntp in a virtual machine. Use it in the
> underlying operating system, and have the virtual machine get its time
> from there. As has been pointed out the virtual machine's clock is
> virtual, and could be stopped for arbitrarily long times, as the
> underlying system does other things.

Why? E.g. development of an ISO installation image in a VM with the
requirement to have a functional ntpd after installing the ISO.

Why in the world should it be evil to have a working ntpd in a virtual
machine? I have some with stability=0.000 and a very low offset and I'm
happy with it.

You are right, the clock could be stopped for longer times but it is not
happening here. And you can miss interrupts on real hardware which should
have nearly the same effect for ntpd.

Cheers

Markus