Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines

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Latest Revision:
Aug 12, 2008

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http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

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This paper describes how timekeeping hardware works in physical machines, how typical guest operating systems use this hardware to keep time, and how VMware products virtualize the hardware.

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