On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, A.K.Srikanth wrote:
All,
I have SL 4.4 on a Virtual Machine running on Windows 2003 as the host OS
and I have the infamous clock skew problem. The clock drifts and drifts on
the VM..... and NTP wont work. This is a well known problem with Redhat and
requires that the Vmware tools be installed and run.
If you updated kernel to the latest 2.6.9-78.EL,
there is the boot parameter "divider" which may help
a guest to solve ntpd problem. Just add to grub.conf "divider=10",
like below:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.ELsmp ro root=/dev/md0 divider=10
and you guest will run w/ 100Hz clock instead of 1000Hz.
The problem is that I cant use Redhat compiled version of Vmware tools on SL
and because my VM was highly stripped down, the SL 4.4 does not have any
compilers etc. Before I have to go and painstakingly start installing all the
tools needed to compile, I wanted to see if any of you had a precompiled
version of _*VMWARE tools for SL 4.4*_. If you are willing to share, please
let me know
Thanks,
Sri
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Best regards,
Valery Mitsyn
