On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:35:22PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > He may have to tools installed, but I've found on Centos and BSD as > guests, you generally have to turn it on in the vmx file. Guest != > syncTime turned on.
That is not the case in the VM that William is using (which I created, and which has vmware tools both installed and enabled). > On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:38 pm, Tom Russo wrote: > > 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 -- 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
