NTP is not supposed to be running on your vm's. Instead, you leverage
vmware tools and use the vmware-toolbox to enable time synchronization
between the guest vm and the host. Also clock=pit is the recommended
boot parameter.
chkconfig ntpd off
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:03 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> I'm running a CentOS 4.4 VM on a Windows XP host with VMware Server,
> and have the problem that my clock runs too slow (it happens in
> VMware Workstation as well). It loses between 30 and 45 seconds
> every minute! This is a known problem and can be fixed by adding
> "nosmp noapic nolapic" to the boot command according to VMware tech
> note ID 1420. However, despite adding these options as well as some
> others (acpi=off pci=noacpi clock=pit) and turning off a bunch of
> daemons (cpuspeed, irqbalance, etc.) I still have a slow clock. Here
> are the daemons that are still enabled:
>
> anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> cups-config-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on
> 5:on 6:off
> denyhosts 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
> portmap 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> readahead 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
> readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
> sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> vmware-tools 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
> winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:on 5:off 6:off
> xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
>
> Has anyone else come across this problem and if so, did you find a
> way to fix it? This is the last issue that is preventing me from
> distributing this VM to users.
>
> Thanks,
> Alfred
>
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