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

bill bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Fri May 12 08:41:21 EDT 2023


On 5/12/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-05-12, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> That's going to make for some "interesting" real-time program behaviour... :-)
> 

Does VMS still claim to be an RTOS?  Did it ever (there was VAXELN)?

And, anyway, trying to do realtime in a VM has got to be futile.

bill





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