[olug] vmware guest system clock speed problem

[Charles Bird]

With time flying that fast, maybe u shoyld join the uptime project. ;)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Anderson" <manders2k.lists at gmail.com>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] vmware guest system clock speed problem
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:46:10 -0500
> 
> 
> I hadn't installed the VMWare Tools (they're mostly useful if you're
> running X Windows and want better graphics support and whatnot,
> correct?), but I have now.  It didn't seem to make any difference in
> the oddness.
> 
> Grrr.
> 
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> >
> > -- Sean Kelly         | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296
> > smkelly at zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org
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> --
>    Matt Anderson
> 
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