On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 13:19 +1000, Centos-admin wrote: > Hello all, > > I thought I'd ask you guys about this one since I've had no luck from > vmware forums/kb or google ... > > > I have a centos 4.3 x86-64 (athlon64 with cool-n quiet enabled) with > vmware server 1.0 installed and working beautifully with the annoying > exception of my guest machines clocks (centos, ubuntu etc) run very > fast. I've read the vmware white paper on guest clocks, tried all their > suggestions and had no joy. I've tried passing the clock=x parameters to > the guests kernel etc to no avail. There is one last hope according to > the white paper....install vmware tools and then set clock=pmtr and then > use ntp from within the guest to sync the time periodically. This was discussed recently on this list and it looks like maybe you didn't search CentOS lists? I don't use it, but IIRC, the "pmtr" was one of the possible solutions. Search CentOS and maybe you'll get lucky and see your config mentioned? > Do any of > you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a > graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get > it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ? This wasn't discussed, IIRC. And I'm ignorant about that GUI gooey stuff. > > > Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs > until I can fix this. Always a safe posture. AAMOF, I quit cutting *anything* over to production many years ago. ;-) Now my nerves are much better, thanks! > <snip sig overage> > Bards. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
