On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:14:06PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Install VMWare tools in the Guest OS (under the "VM" menu selection in the > console. > > Then, in the .vmx file for the guest os add "tools.syncTime=TRUE" and that > will keep them in lockstep >
The virtual machine William's using has vmware tools installed already, so this is not the issue. The problem is clock-speed related, and requires some tweaks to *undocumented* parameters in a vmware configuration file. > On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:10 pm, William McKeehan wrote: > > Hahaha, I hear you, but actually, I've not had many problems with Vista. > > Once > > I realized this problem was a firewall issue, it was easy to adjust the > > Windows firewall to get around the problem. > > > > > > However, once I got the VMWare stuff up and running (BTW, the Xastir > > install worked just fine once I corrected the firewall issue) I noticed a > > small problem. > > > > The clock on the guest OS was moving along at a rather quick step (1 > > minute per second or there about). None of the tricks that I found from > > Google > > corrected this, so I bailed on the VMWare install and reverted to the > > Cygwin > > install. > > > > So far, the Cygwin setup seems to be working just fine under Vista. > > -- > > William McKeehan > > KI4HDU > > http://mckeehan.homeip.net > > Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/mckeehan > > > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 12:43 pm, Gerry Creager wrote: > > > >> Reformat and install linux? Reformat and install XP? Either will work > >> better than Vista... > >> > >> gerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
