Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> writes:
> 2009/3/19 jam <[email protected]>:
>
>> I have not been able to get VMWARE to keep time on my dual AMDs
>> despite trying all the solutions I could find. (Guest loses 5min
>> /hour !!!!!)
>
> I vaguely remember a long time ago doing some rtc pokery to get this
> going. An alternative would be to frequently sync to an ntp server.
That is what we refer to as a losing strategy: running NTP inside a
VMWare VM, or pretty much any VM, is going to make your life *MORE*
miserable, not less.
NTP requires a whole bunch of things to work correctly, and a VM simply
cannot deliver them. Just use the host hardware clock, or a real
paravirtualized time source.[1]
>> VirtualBox works a treat for me. Used to was that the network setup
>> to run as a server was hard-work, but is now as easy as VMWARE.
>
> It still looks like having proper network bridging (so the VMs are
> directly on the network just like any other host) is a pain in the
> bum. The solutions I've seen involve performing some arcane rituals
> with brctl and co.
Configuring a bridge with brctl should be trivial on any sensible
distribution. Seriously, if you need software bridging it shouldn't be
harder than just defining a software bridge and adding the interface.
Regards,
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] This implies, sadly, not VMWare. Ah, well.
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