On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:50 -0700, Josh Miller wrote: > John Horne wrote: > >> as i recall, there are a few parameters you can set within the vmware app > >> for the guest os, in order to sync the timing, and to stop the skew from > >> occuring... > >> > >> i think you might also have to modify the kernel startup attributes. > >> > > The only solution I have found to work is to stop NTP on the guest and > > simply run ntpdate (getting the time from other reliable server) every > > hour or so via cron. The only 'solution' I have not tried is rebuilding > > the kernel. Suggestions like use the PIT time source on the kernel > > startup line may well improve the timekeeping, but it still loses time. > > Hi, coming into this late, but I have been very successful with the > following solution: > > 1. make sure all ESX hosts are syncing time via NTP with a reliable source > 2. disable NTPD in all guests > 3. set each guest to sync time via VMware tools by setting > tools.SyncTime=TRUE > 4. in each guest, on the kernel line in grub.conf, set clock=pit and reboot > Tried it, but didn't work. The guests still lost time (although the host was still accurate). John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
