I am having the same problem as this fellow: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005/11/problems-with-freebsd-6.html In addition to trying the (rather many) solutions suggested in the link (in particular, setting kern.hz=100 does *not* fix this problem), I have tried enabling/disabling acpi, to no avail. Again, FreeBSD's clock appears to be running at precisely *half* the rate of the host OS (WinXP Pro, in my case).
Ed
2005-Nov-17 04:57 UTC
Kernel clock for 6-STABLE runs at 1/2 speed in VMware 5.0 - WORKAROUND FOUND
After noticing the problem went away in Safe Mode, and then figuring out what Safe Mode actually does*, I've worked around the problem by disabling the APIC device, which, I gather, forces FreeBSD to use the old-fashioned IRQ timers. This fix will not work if you want to run an SMP kernel in VMWare, I suppose, but I imagine there aren't too many people doing such a thing. Anyhoo: In /boot/loader.conf , add: hint.apic.0.disabled=1 * All currently available documentation for FreeBSD Safe Mode, for those who are interested, is apparently located here: grep -A11 'bootsafekey @' /boot/beastie.4th