> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frost, Mark > {PBG} > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Server in a Virtual Machine? > > > Does anyone out there have experience running a Nagios server under a > virtual machine (VM)? Specifcally VMWare in a Linux VM? > > I'm a little nervous about some of the things I've heard about VMs being > a little off time-wise, but perhaps that would not be a problem for > Nagios. >
VMWare doesn't like that. The host's clock is set to ntp, then the VM is set to the host. I'm pretty sure you need to make sure you have vmware-tools installed on the client system. 1. Run the vmware tools. 2. Add tools.syncTime = true to the /servername/.vmx file. 3. Add this to /boot/grub/grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda2 *clock=pit* 4. Restart http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1420 -- -jq ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
