[Dovecot] dovecot: Fatal: Time just moved backwards by 3909 seconds.

[Udo Rader]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 11/30/2009, Udo Rader (listudo at bestsolution.at) wrote:
>> The virtual guest is Centos 5.4 based with dovecot 1.2.8 (at first we
>> also tried with the original 1.0.7 (?) dovecot shipped with Centos).
>>
>> I wrote "alleged time shift" because there is no timeshift
>> whatsoever, or at least I don't notice it anywhere else.
>>
>> ntp is - of course ;-) - up and running and no other applications
>> have time troubles and I've even disabled the local clock as a time
>> reference.
> 
> Of course you know not to use ntp on VMs, only on the host, right?
> 
> :)

heh, ok, ship hit an sunk :-)

I was absolutely not aware of a "clocksource" kernel parameter, what a 
weird thing ...

  > Revent kernels should be able to keep the VM time synced using kvmclock
> clocksource...

So I'll give clocksource=acpi_pm a chance and see how it turns out ...

Thanks for your hint!

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