[olug] vmware guest system clock speed problem

[Sean Kelly]

Way to make me install FreeBSD 6.1 on VMware Server.

Time synchronization works here, even before I installed the VMware Tools
on the guest. However, now I"m trying to figure out how to get the vmx0
network interface to show up. I'm also installing X libraries so I can run
the vmware-toolbox command and configure the guest tools.

Did you install the VMware Tools on the FreeBSD guest? Hint, you'll need
Perl to run the installer (`pkg_add -r perl`).

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:15:40PM -0500, Matthew Anderson wrote:
> Hey VMWare Experts --
> 
> I'm seeing some pretty wacky behavior with a VMWare guest OS -- the  
> system clock is running at something like 3x realtime.  The host is  
> running Ubuntu 6.06 and the current version of VMWare Server Beta,  
> and the guest is FreeBSD 6.1.
> 
> I do an ntpdate command, pause only for a moment, and do it again,  
> and it already reports a time shift of multiple seconds.
> 
> Anyone familiar with this phenomena?  Any easy way to remedy the  
> situation?
> 
> Thanks...

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