29Nov/070
Microsoft Virtual Server Clock Issue: Clock Skew Detected (Linux VM)
I ran into a weird little issue today on a CentOS 4.5 virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. I had configured and compiled Ruby 1.8.6 Patchlevel 110 and su-ed to root to perform a make install. However, I kept getting a make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete message after a couple of tries. A bit of searching indicated that the clock skew message was what it sound like: A processor related timing issue. Linux VMs tend to have issues with clocks running slow. So, I brought up system-config-time to have it force the clock to sync with an external source. Performing a make install after that resulted in an error free installation.