Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

re: Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

Jesper — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:25:50 GMT

Hi Ben,

Thank you for that inside (?) information. It's REALLY appreciated!
Problem solved in R2 perhaps?

Regards Jesper

re: Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

Benjamin Armstrong — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:27:53 GMT

Hi Jesper,

I believe that you are seeing a known bug. Virtual Server should resync the time of the virtual machine on each boot - but it doesn't. The easiest thing to do here is to configure your virtual machine to use network time syncronization with an external source.

Cheers,
Ben

re: Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

Jesper — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:12:06 GMT

Hi Ben,

I have a problem in my environment that I think might be a issue with Virtual Server and the time in BIOS.
We had a loss of power a little while ago. The PDC emulator that is responsible for the time in the domain was down during the period described below.
When power came back my Virtual Server started (the host). It had no source of acurate time since the PDC emulator was down and my second DC is a virtual one.
Well, my virtual DC starts and client starts to syncronise time with that one. Guess what? It's 40 minutes wrong. Seems like the BIOS in my virtual DC had "saved" the time from system was shutdown?

My question: Where does the BIOS in the virtual machines get the time?

re: Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

Benjamin Armstrong — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:07:15 GMT

Hi Guys,

I have nothing to do with Virtual PC for Mac these days - so I can't really answer either of your questions.

Cheers,
Ben

re: Why is Virtual Server telling me that "hardware/bios/time_bytes" changed?

Macuserguy — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:10:40 GMT

How long until Virtual PC comes out for ht e new Macs? Will it finally be able to access graphics hardware?

OT

Mark — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:10:58 GMT

First off, I want to apologize for going off topic in this comment, but due to its obscure nature, you may be the only person able to answer my question.

I just found a blog post of yours from last fall ( http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/08/17/452726.aspx ) which talks about using MaxiVista with Virtual PC to essentially simulate a virtual machine with an extended desktop across 2 monitors (actually 2 virtual machines).

That scenario is VERY close to what I am trying to accomplish, but before I invest in a copy of MaxiVista, I need to know whether or not what I want to do will work.

I have a Dual G5 PowerMac with 2 monitors running OS X 10.4 and Virtual PC 7. Assuming that I configure MaxiVista and VirtualPC like you did, would it be possible for me to make one virtual machine full screen on one of my monitors while the other virtual machine is full screen on the other monitor?

I know that you are a Virtual PC for Windows rather than Mac, but since I have had such difficulty in explaining to anyone what I am trying to accomplish, it seems like your previous experience using Virtual PC with MaxiVista makes you into my last best hope for an accurate answer.

Mark Bitterling
mark2006@ky.net