Hi Christian, On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 04:25:10 AM Christian Glomb wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently running several virtual machines on VMware ESXI 4.1 and am > wondering whether there is a possibility to explicitely steer the system > time (wall clock) of selected virtual machines instead of letting them > synchronize to VMware ESXI base system time. > > So: are there hooks in the time synchronization module (vmsync ?) to > dictate a VM's wall clock such that dependent on the external time > dictate module the selected wall clock inside the VM runs faster or > slower than (in general asynchronous to) the base system time? > > Why: want to run accelerated or slown down network emulations similiar > to a project called slicetime: > http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/research/projects/slicetime/
There are no such hooks in the timesync plug in, however you should be able to disable the standard time synchronization in guest (vmware-toolbox-cmd timesync disable) and then drive it yourself. Hope this helps, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
