[smokeping-users] Running smokeping inside a Virtual Machine

[Vinny Abello]

I've also run Smokeping on FreeBSD running inside VMWare on a Windows
box on multiple occasions. No issues... except adjusting a boot time
setting in FreeBSD so the clock would work properly in the VM.

Frank Wegner wrote:
> Hi smokeping Experts,
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> I like to know if you ever tried running smokeping inside a VMware
> virtual machine (Debian Linux guest OS).
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> The effect I see is that when running smokeping on a physical box the
> network is fine, but when running smokeping from inside a virtual
> machine a lot of packets appear to be dropped. However, the network
> applications itself all seem to be fine.
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> My guess is that maybe smokeping is very time sensitive. The virtual
> machine clock has time jumps and irregularities in the millisecond range
> (up to 200 ms). So how well does smokeping cope with a system clock
> which does not constantly show the correct time? Could this explain that
> some packets appear as dropped (they could just have arrived at
> unexpected times)?
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> Thanks a lot in advance,
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> F
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> Best Regards.
> 
> Frank Wegner
> http://www.vmware.com
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