Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out? Thanks, festus -- Alan McKinnon alan

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 March 2008, John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread Jan Seeger
On Thu, 06. Mar, John J. Foster spammed my inbox with Hi all - it's been awhile snip Is this common? Is there any way around it? I'm not really sure why openntpd didn't work. I tried out vmware with a windows VM and it was always fast. I have recently read an article on virtualization timing

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 March 2008, John J. Foster wrote: Switching to 250Hz looks like it has solved the problem. No time lost for a little over an hour now, and ntp is syncing properly, I think. But my reading of the help on this setting led me to believe that 1000Hz was right for a desktop system.

[gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo the

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you need to make sure ntp-client and ntpd (from openntpd) have been started, and you have a valid time server. Below I have included everything I hope will help you - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -vp openntpd These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, What could also help in this is installing vmware-workstation-tools[1] in your Gentoo instance. Not directly related to your specific problem, but I've been running RHEL 5 x86_64 in a VM on a CentOS 5 i386 host. The time in RHEL flows slowly, and soon the clock is way behind. I have tried