I resolved the clock skew issue on my Server 2003 VM with the following:

-rtc base=localtime,driftfix=slew

in place of:

-localtime

-Russ

Mobile message.
Excuse the typos.

On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:07 PM, "Matt Connolly" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm running a Windows 7 guest under qemu-kvm on OI 151 and have a few 
> problems:
> 
> 1. clock drift - this seems really bad, losing about 30 minutes in an hour.
> 2. very slow networking from the guest to the rest of the network.
> 
> My script for starting the vm is like this:
> 
> VNIC=vnic2
> MAC=$(dladm show-vnic -po macaddress $VNIC)
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \
>        -boot order=cd \
>        -runas matt \
>        -enable-kvm \
>        -smp 2 \
>        -m 2048 \
>        -no-hpet \
>        -localtime \
>        -drive file=$DISK0,if=ide,index=0 \
>        -drive file=$DISK1,if=ide,index=1 \
>        -drive file=$CDROM,media=cdrom,if=ide,index=2  \
>        -net nic,vlan=0,name=net0,model=e1000,macaddr=$MAC \
>        -net vnic,vlan=0,name=net0,ifname=$VNIC,macaddr=$MAC \
>        -usbdevice tablet \
>        -vga std -vnc 0.0.0.0:2
> 
> 
> The network issues seems to be only outgoing packets. The guest VM can 
> connect to the internet and local servers and download at reasonable speeds, 
> but running any kind of service on the machine appears so slow that they time 
> out to other devices on the network. I've tested this out with RDP, HTTP 
> (wamp) and file sharing - all services appear online and connections succeed, 
> but they are so slow they eventually fail (timeout).
> 
> For example, copying a 200MB file from a network drive into the Windows guest 
> takes about 5 seconds. Copying the same file back to the server looks like it 
> will take 15 hours.
> 
> Network bandwidth to the OI host is fine, and using VNC (from qemu) is snappy 
> as can be. Additionally none of these problems can be seen running a linux 
> guest virtual machine.
> 
> Has anyone experienced these problems?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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