problems with guests time and date

problems with guests time and date

[Riccardo Veraldi]

Hello,
I have a problem.
my host with KVM has correct date set.
All the quests has a date 2 hours disaligned, and everytime they boot I must
ntpdate hte KVM guests.
How to solve this problem ?



guest at boot time
22 Apr 09:08:02 ntpdate[1901]: step time server x.y.z.t offset 
7297.100104 sec



this si the guest
[root@abbone ~]# date
Wed Apr 22 09:09:52 CEST 2009
[root@abbone ~]# hwclock
Wed 22 Apr 2009 07:08:19 AM CEST  -0.306596 seconds


this the host

[root@xenserver2 guest]# hwclock
Wed 22 Apr 2009 09:08:46 AM CEST  -0.078768 seconds


thanks


Rick

Re: problems with guests time and date

[Michael Tokarev]

Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a problem.
> my host with KVM has correct date set.
> All the quests has a date 2 hours disaligned, and everytime they boot I 

What's your timezone offset from UTC?  Here's the Date: header from
your email:

  Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:11:03 +0200

Don't you see the problem already? :)

> must
> ntpdate hte KVM guests.
> How to solve this problem ?

Take a look at -localtime kvm/qemu option.  And/or teach your guests
to use UTC time as they should.

/mjt