Patrick_3000
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I currently have a local NTP server using NTPD running in Linux Mint on a small fanless computer. However, I have virtualized almost everything in KVM on SCALE and am planning to phase out the Mint computer. I'm also in the process of virtualizing OPNsense on SCALE, after which there will be nothing left in the way of physical computers on my network other than my two SCALE servers, laptops and mobile devices.
The problem is the NTP server. From what I've read, NTP servers shouldn't be virtualized, and I'd like to maintain one locally to synchronize everything on my network with low latency.
Does anyone know of a way to set up SCALE as an NTP server? Either directly through the UI or through an app? Of course, I could probably just install NTPD on SCALE at the CLI over SSH, since it's built on Debian just as Mint ultimately is. However, I don't want to start doing anything on SCALE that's not part of the GUI because I don't want to risk breaking anything.
Alternatively, does anyone know if there's a way to use a VM in SCALE KVM for an NTP server? I've seen threads saying that VMs should never be used as NTP servers, but they're mostly older threads.
The problem is the NTP server. From what I've read, NTP servers shouldn't be virtualized, and I'd like to maintain one locally to synchronize everything on my network with low latency.
Does anyone know of a way to set up SCALE as an NTP server? Either directly through the UI or through an app? Of course, I could probably just install NTPD on SCALE at the CLI over SSH, since it's built on Debian just as Mint ultimately is. However, I don't want to start doing anything on SCALE that's not part of the GUI because I don't want to risk breaking anything.
Alternatively, does anyone know if there's a way to use a VM in SCALE KVM for an NTP server? I've seen threads saying that VMs should never be used as NTP servers, but they're mostly older threads.