<html dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style> </head> <body ocsi="0" fpstyle="1"> <div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi,<br> <br> We use ESX5i, the IPA servers are VMs and run ntp from our main ntp server, clients time sync to the IPA servers.<br> <br> The only time we see time problems is with clients that do absolutely no work, then their time sometimes drifts excessively, we set the ticker panic to zero to get around that.<br> <br> If ppl have better ideas I'd be pleased to hear them.<br> <br> <br> <div><br> <div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"> <p>regards</p> <p>Steven Jones</p> <p>Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE</p> <p>Victoria University, Wellington, NZ</p> <p>0064 4 463 6272<br> </p> </div> </div> <div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: 16px"> <hr tabindex="-1"> <div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF917749"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> freeipa-users-bounces@redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces@redhat.com] on behalf of Schmitt, Christian [c.schmitt@briefdomain.de]<br> <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 10 July 2013 10:20 p.m.<br> <b>To:</b> natxo asenjo<br> <b>Cc:</b> freeipa-users@redhat.com<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeipa-users] Virtual Machines??<br> </font><br> </div> <div></div> <div> <div dir="ltr">Did you used the --no-ntp option or freeipa? or did you use the internal freeipa ntp?<br> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/9 natxo asenjo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:natxo.asenjo@gmail.com" target="_blank">natxo.asenjo@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On 07/08/2013 03:49 PM, Schmitt, Christian wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex"> Hello, is there currently a good way to install FreeIPA or IdM in<br> virtual machines?<br> Currently we having some Windows Hyper-V Hypervisors since we are<br> planning to buy some Dell Hardware that can't run Linux yet, the Dell VRTX.<br> Also we want to reuse our Windows Server Datacenter Licenses.<br> Is there a good way to do it?<br> </blockquote> <br> </div> we run a fully virtualized IdM environment on ESX. We did run in time synch problems after a server was rebooted for updates, the time was way out of sync.<br> <br> Running ntpdate to synchronize to the ntp server on boot with the /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate config file was the solution for us. the iburst option in ntp.conf works if your clock skew is not greater than 300 seconds, but then you do not have login problems either.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> -- <br> groet,<br> natxo</font></span> <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"><br> <br> ______________________________<u></u>_________________<br> Freeipa-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Freeipa-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">Freeipa-users@redhat.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users</a><br> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>