I was running Dovecot on a Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machine as a place where I
could store emails I’d like to keep (and be sure I had a backup copy of them).
The host was Windows and VMWare Server 1.x. I tried everything I could think
of, but nothing ever completely made the error go away other than reducing the load
on the server.
Dovecot Time Moved Backwards
Error
Same hardware, Linux base OS, VMWare Server 2.x. Haven’t seen the problem since.
The best way I’ve found so far to tell if I’m running inside a virtual machine is
to check the video driver. You can enumerate the system devices using something
like this:
Query hardware device
status in C#
And then check the video driver for a string like “VMware SVGA II” (for VMware Server).
This falls into the “just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean you should actually
do it” category.
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=32
If you follow the guide, you’ll end up with a very strange situation on your host
PC:
If you notice, the VMWare process is taking up 1 of the CPU, but 48% is actually being
used. This makes the host system very slow whenever it is running the OS X VM.Â
The VM is also painfully slow. Also, remember to diable the Intel virtualization
settings in your BIOS/CMOS. I have a really fast PC and I would recommend actually
buying a Mac instead of attempting to run OS X in a VM. The appeal is there
to do things like develop iPhone applications on Wndows, but until Apple embraces
that I would want to run OS X in a VM and not have to buy their “special” hardware,
you’re stuck with two machines or just a Mac.
I wonder how many machines Apple has sold just so comanies could develop applications
for an iPhone.
