In my experience for windows guests you need to set the time on the vm to your local time, for RHEL you need to set it to UTC. -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Groten, Ryan Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 07:44 AM To: Aslam, Usman; users(a)ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] VM time offset I'm having the same issue where the guest time is offset by 7 hours (out timezone difference) from UTC. I read in the VM System configuration for Time Zone that hwclock on Linux guests should have the TZ set to GMT+0, but if I change it to GMT-7, the clock is set as expected on boot. -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Aslam, Usman Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 3:23 PM To: users(a)ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] VM time offset Hi guys, I'm having an issue where the VMs do not keep correct time upon reboot. The clock is always off by ~4 hours. I've checked and time and time zone on engine/host nodes is correct. Correct time zone is specified in the ovirt vm configuration as well. The VM in question is a clean CentOS 7 install. It did not have NTP enabled. I've tried setting it up with a local server and no dice. Upon reboot it always gets messed up. [root@xyz-dev ~]# date Fri Aug 7 17:18:09 EDT 2015 [root@xyz-dev ~]# reboot Connection to sso-dev closed by remote host. [root@xyz-dev ~]# date Fri Aug 7 13:20:47 EDT 2015 [root@xyz-dev ~]# ntpdate ntp1.xyz.domain.org 7 Aug 17:21:05 ntpdate[2151]: step time server 130.64.25.6 offset 14410.388931 sec Thanks, --Usman _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users