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How does the clock work in OpenVZ? [message #10949]

Fri, 09 March 2007 09:30

Wolfgang Schnerring is currently offline

Wolfgang Schnerring
Messages: 10
Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

Hello,

I'm trying to understand whether OpenVZ does anything special about
time, and thus whether I need to take care to somehow synchronize the
clocks of HN and VEs. For example, can gettimeofday(2) return
different things in the HN and in a VE?

Thanks for your help,
Wolfgang

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Re: How does the clock work in OpenVZ? [message #10951 is a reply to message #10949]

Fri, 09 March 2007 09:51

dev
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Registered: September 2005
Location: Moscow

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Wolfgang,

> I'm trying to understand whether OpenVZ does anything special about
> time, and thus whether I need to take care to somehow synchronize the
> clocks of HN and VEs.
no. system time is global for the whole node and its VEs.
By default, VE can not change system time (it requires CAP_SYS_TIME)

> For example, can gettimeofday(2) return
> different things in the HN and in a VE?
it can :) but only if different timezones are selected in VEs.
So you can setup ntpd on the host node and that's all.

Thanks,
Kirill

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Re: How does the clock work in OpenVZ? [message #10952 is a reply to message #10951]

Fri, 09 March 2007 10:27

Wolfgang Schnerring
Messages: 10
Registered: January 2007

Junior Member

Hello Kirill,

* Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> [2007-03-09 13:04]:
> > I'm trying to understand whether OpenVZ does anything special about
> > time, and thus whether I need to take care to somehow synchronize the
> > clocks of HN and VEs.
> no. system time is global for the whole node and its VEs.
> By default, VE can not change system time (it requires CAP_SYS_TIME)
>
> > For example, can gettimeofday(2) return
> > different things in the HN and in a VE?
> it can :) but only if different timezones are selected in VEs.
> So you can setup ntpd on the host node and that's all.

Thanks for your quick response! Now I don't need to fear asynchronity
anymore. 8-)

Wolfgang

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Re: How does the clock work in OpenVZ? [message #10956 is a reply to message #10951]

Fri, 09 March 2007 16:44

Mike Holloway
Messages: 8
Registered: February 2007

Junior Member

On Mar 9, 2007, at 4:04 AM, Kirill Korotaev wrote:

> Wolfgang,
>
>> I'm trying to understand whether OpenVZ does anything special about
>> time, and thus whether I need to take care to somehow synchronize the
>> clocks of HN and VEs.
> no. system time is global for the whole node and its VEs.
> By default, VE can not change system time (it requires CAP_SYS_TIME)
>
>> For example, can gettimeofday(2) return
>> different things in the HN and in a VE?
> it can :) but only if different timezones are selected in VEs.
> So you can setup ntpd on the host node and that's all.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirill

Or even better, set up ntpd inside a VE that has CAP_SYS_TIME.

vzctl set 101 --capability sys_time:on --save

-mike

>
>

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