Extremely fast clock with Windows host, Linux guest VirtualBox-5.1.26-117224-Win

[elconde]

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Virtualbox 5.1.26. I brought up my Arch Linux guest and found that the clock was going very fast. I'm talking about 300 times fast!

I run date then ten seconds later I run it again. It says that three minutes have elapsed!

I tried creating a new guest and booting from ISO: archlinux-2017.06.01-x86_64. The same thing happens.

I have now downgraded to 5.1.24. I no longer have this issue.

[socratis]

1. Start the VM. Not from a saved or paused state. Clean start.
2. Take the steps required to generate/observe the error.
3. Shut down the VM. Not saved or paused. Completely shut down.
4. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager. Select "Show Log..."
5. Save it (only the first VBox.log), ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

I would also like to see the "recipe" of the VM, the ".vbox" file:

1. Right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager. Select "Show in Finder/Explorer/Whatever".
2. ZIP the selected ".vbox" file and attach it to your response.

[elconde]

I just upgraded back to 5.1.26 r117224 and no longer experience this issue.

Since I last posted I upgraded the Linux kernel from 4.12.3 to 4.12.6 and reinstalled the guest additions. Maybe that did it.