[Info-vax] clock problems with OpenVMS x86 on VirtualBox

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-05-12 kl. 03:49, skrev gah4:
> On Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 9:49:43 AM UTC-7, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> I am running OpenVMS x86_64 E9.2-1 under VirtualBox 7.0.8 on macOS
>> Ventura 13.3.1 (a). The host is a 2019 MacBook Pro with 2.3 GHz 8-Core
>> Intel Core i9. The clock isn't working right, most easily seen by the
>> fact that the following two commands were typed exactly one minute apart:
> 
> 
> If you Google for virtualbox clock, there are over 15 million hits.
> (That is, for all guest OS.)
> 
> I didn't follow all of them, but it does seem that the ones that work have
> guest OS that know how to ask VB about the clock, instead of using
> the usual one.
> 

Actually, that was how I thought it worked. Since I observed that
the clock in my VirtualBox VMS environment lagge a bit behind
but each 10-20 sec, it jumpt ahead and skipped a second so that
it become in sync with the host Windows environment again.

I do not understand how VMS "knows" to jump a second ahead in
any other way then to ask some other environment. No NNTP here...