On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 12:57 -0700, Jason Becker wrote: > Section 2.1.4.5. NTP in the Fedora 18 / 3.1.5 Guide states: > > "If a server is being installed on a virtual machine, that server *should > not* run an NTP server. To disable NTP for FreeIPA, use the *--no-ntp*option." > > There is no further explanation. > > I would like to install FreeIPA Server on a vSphere VM where NTP is > recommended as part of their timekeeping best practices for Linux guests.
Often happens that VMs do not do very good time keeping, so using a VM as the central NTP server is not really advised, you should instead get a good source for NTP external to the virtualized environment and you that one as the time source for your network. Of course if your virtualization environment guarantees a good clock, go for it. The recommendation is in the spirit of avoiding issues in the common case, that up to the time of the writing was not very good :) Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
