[syslinux] "Tick-counting" vs "Tick-less" timekeeping issues on VMs emulating BIOS PCs

[Michael Brown]

On 03/03/16 09:45, Patrick Masotta wrote:
> > At the BIOS standard rate of 18.2Hz, no modern machine is even going to
> > notice.
>
> I think they do when running a VM,
>
> That's why my Debian VM date is always indicating whatever,
> no matter how many times I reset the time of the day.
> (Running on a i7-3630QM host)
> For some reason they cannot emulate a good timer interrupt.

Your Linux guest will have reconfigured the timer interrupt to run 
faster than the BIOS standard rate of 18.2Hz.

Michael