[systemd-devel] Enabling timesyncd in virtual machines

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Michael Marineau
<michael.marineau at coreos.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 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.

Sounds reasonable. Until someone has a better or clear idea how to
solve that reliably, I turned the option around.

Thanks,
Kay