* Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20071205 23:31]: > I have problems getting the time stable on a grml 1.0 guest running > inside a vmware virtual machine on a grml 1.0 host.
> The host is synchronized via chrony and it works. > The guest is getting behind the host system time very rapidly (approx 10 > Mins in an hour) > I tried various options: > 1 with chrony and without vmware tools time sync > 2 the inverse > 3 some hacks include: > kern.hz=100 in lilo.conf > nothing works. > I also have a grml 1.0 running as guest inside vmware workstation (the > commercial product tp vmware server) on a Windows 2000 host (which has > no time sync) . Here , the guest has no time sync with the host and uses > chrony . Everything works in this case. Did you enable "Time synchrononization between the virtual machine and the host operating system." inside vmware-tools? That's tools.syncTime = "TRUE" inside the according .vmx file if you don't have X. Further tips from one of my personal cheatsheets: * Booting the guest OS with clock=pit and/or acpi=off * echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate * http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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