timesyncd: enable timesyncd in virtual machines

System Internals / systemd - Kay Sievers [vrfy.org] - 15 March 2015 13:44 UTC

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Michael Marineau wrote: > Currently systemd-timesyncd.service includes > ConditionVirtualization=no, disabling it in both containers and > virtual machines. Each VM platform tends to deal with or ignore the > time problem in their own special ways, KVM/QEMU has the kernel time > source kvm-clock, Xen has had different schemes over the years, VMware > expects a userspace daemon sync the clock, and other platforms are > content to drift with the wind as far as I can tell. > > I don't know of a robust way to know if a platform needs a little > extra help from userspace to keep the clock sane or not but it seems > generally safer to try than to risk drifting. Does anyone know of a > reason to leave timesyncd off by default? Otherwise switching to > ConditionVirtualization=!container should be reasonable.

4b16233 timesyncd: enable timesyncd in virtual machines
units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Upstream: github.com

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