[olug] vmware guest system clock speed problem

[Thomas Roehr]

VMWare has the answer in answer id 1420:

http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_alp.php

Tom

Charles Bird wrote:
> With time flying that fast, maybe u shoyld join the uptime project. ;)
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>> ----- 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
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>> 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.
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>> Grrr.
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>> On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
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>>> Way to make me install FreeBSD 6.1 on VMware Server.
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>>> 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:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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>>> -- Sean Kelly         | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296
>>> smkelly at zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org
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>>    Matt Anderson
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