Running Date command on KVM guest

[amittomar]

I have run the "date" command on kvm Guest OS  and it shows me the time which is way out of sync from host.

I see that clocksource for KVM guest is "timebase" but it is not in sync with host. I tried running ntpd which comes with busybox on guest in hope

to get a time which is in sync with guest,but could not see anything after running below command.

#ntpd -q -p host_ipaddress.

Ping is working between guest and host using TAP.

Would any one point me out some way to get synced time on guest OS with respect to host?

Thanks,

Amit.

[scottwood]

ntpd is for keeping clocks in sync that are already close.  ntpd only speeds/slows time to match the reference; it does not make time jump.  If you want to set the date immediately, use ntpdate.