From: "Peter Kiem" <zordah@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Give it some time, Gene. It seems to be far enough off it may take > > a day or so to get down to 2ms type errors. (And if you have ntpdate > > running please be nice to yourself and turn it off. It will screw > > up the feedback loop ntp uses to average out bad data.) > > Are you saying that you can run ntpdate and ntpd at the same time? *N*O*!* > When I try to ntpdate when ntpd is running I always get "the NTP socket > is in use, exiting" and have to stop ntpd first. There is a way to do it. It upsets the feedback loop in ntp. And just off hand I would never expect ntp to work right in any virtual machine. {^_^}