Opened 4 years ago
#19954 new defect
after DISabling timesync in VB linux guest's GuestAdditions, boot errors: "timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED" ?
Reported by: | pgnd | Owned by: | |
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Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.14 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I run
rpm -qa | grep -i virtualbox VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.14_140239_fedora32-1.x86_64 uname -rm 5.8.13-200.fc32.x86_64 x86_64
for both host & guests.
I've been having lots of time-sync issues in guests -- large drifts, time jumping forward & backwards, etc.
That's despite running chrony time sync clients in each guest.
After some digging, found this
and disabled timesync in clients' GuestAdditions, with
VBoxManage setextradata "<vm name>" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1
Now, on guest reboot, I'm seeing these errors in guest dmesg log,
dmesg | egrep -i "timesync|virtualbox" [ 0.000000] DMI: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006 [ 2.123518] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: VirtualBox [ 2.134288] input: VirtualBox USB Tablet as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/0003:80EE:0021.0001/input/input5 [ 2.134476] hid-generic 0003:80EE:0021.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [VirtualBox USB Tablet] on usb-0000:00:06.0-1/input0 [ 27.809171] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006 [ 27.809255] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006 [ 57.418443] 02:19:39.352350 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 66.602300] 02:19:49.375515 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 75.767563] 02:19:59.378440 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 84.932750] 02:20:09.381252 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 94.098285] 02:20:19.384482 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 103.264664] 02:20:29.388593 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 112.496162] 02:20:39.463769 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 121.658906] 02:20:49.463953 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 130.822255] 02:20:59.464766 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED [ 139.985037] 02:21:09.464959 timesync Error: vgsvcTimeSyncWorker: VbglR3GetHostTime failed; rc2=VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED
Clearly 'errors', not warnings ...
Either a bug, or add'l config is needed to fix/silence that ...
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