I have a XEN domU running CentOS 5.
I'm having trouble setting the correct timezone.
I want it to run on Mountain Standard Time, but it shows Pacific Standard time. I've tried everything, but I can't get this right. This VM doesn't have Internet access, so I can't use ntpd or anything. I sync it up with another Xen domU running XP, which has the correct timezone and time. But even if I don't sync up, it should show me the correct timezone, since I'm pointing /etc/localtime at the correct timezone.
Here's all the commands (and output for some) I've used so far.
# mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain /etc/localtime
# vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
ZONE="America/Denver"
UTC=true
ARC=false
# /usr/sbin/tzdata-update
# /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc
# uname -a
Linux MyServer 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:18:27 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Now when I type date it shows PST
# date
Thu Apr 7 16:29:34 PDT 2011
ntpd is not running
What's missing?
Best Answer
Do you use a PV Xen DomU? If so, your time is coupled with the Dom0. If you want to change that, do a
sysctl -e xen.independent_wallclock = 1After that timezone, ntpdate and ntp will function as expected.